As 2010 elections neared in Saint Kitts and Nevis, a grainy hidden-camera video was uploaded to YouTube. In the anonymously-produced clip, voters across the small Eastern Caribbean islands saw prime minister candidate Lindsey Grant in a hotel room, listening as a British-accented property developer promises him a $1.5 million payment in exchange for a bargain price on a plot of government land. advertisement advertisement "What we're after is making sure you get into power," says the developer, whose face and voice are obscured. In return, "you will help us. . . how does that sound?" Grant, a Harvard Law School-educated lawyer running on an anti-corruption platform, appears reluctant, but eventually pushes the bribe higher, to $1.7 million. The video cuts to white text on black: "He sold his country and the people's land just to win power." The video went viral, and the incumbent prime minister, Denzil Douglas, was soon re-elected for a fourth term. Douglas denied any knowledge of the sting operation, but across the Caribbean, speculation swirled that it was the work of a clandestine London-based political consultancy: SCL Group. advertisement The now-defunct Anglo-American firm has gained notoriety for its harvesting of Facebook profiles and shady campaign tactics… Read full this story
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