ANTIGUA - HALF MOON BAY: NATALIA QUERARD AND HER SIX OUTSTANDI

C O N F I D E N T I A L BRIDGETOWN 000486 SIPDIS SIPDIS WHA/CAR FOR ROBERT COLLINS EB/IFD/OIA FOR JAMES ROSELI L/CID FOR MEERA DE MEL L/WHA FOR DAVID SULLIVAN EB/CBA FOR NANCY SMITH-NISSLEY E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/01/2016 TAGS: EINV CASC PGOV KIDE AC SUBJECT: ANTIGUA - HALF MOON BAY: NATALIA QUERARD AND HER SIX OUTSTANDI REF: A. BRIDGETOWN 287 ¶B. BRIDGETOWN 18 ¶C. 05 BRIDGETOWN 402 CLASSIFIED BY: DCM MARY ELLEN T. GILROY FOR REASONS 1.4 (b) AND (d) ¶1. (U) ACTION REQUEST - paragraph 9. ¶2. (C) Summary: Amcit Natalia Querard, Managing Director of Half Moon ¶3. (C) Querard requested a face-to-face meeting with the DCM, saying s ¶4. (C) The status of her core expropriation case in the Privy Council -------------- Case Background -------------- ¶5. (SBU) Hurricane Luis devastated HMB and Antigua in 1995, and ensuin ¶6. (SBU) After a 2004 electoral upset, the new GOAB under Prime Minist -------------- Querard's Six Court Cases -------------- ¶7. (C) Responding to a question to clarify the Privy Council appeal, Q ¶A. Case One: The original suit brought by HMB shareholders against th ¶B. Case Two: The current Privy Council appeal. (Comment: Neither DC ¶C. Case Three: The Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) sued HMB ¶D. Case Four: HMB counter-sued APUA for cutting off utility services. ¶E. Case Five: Querard sued former GOAB Ambassador to the U.S. Lionel ¶F. Case Six: The former HMB resident manager and minority shareholder -------------- "Replete with Falsehood and Malicious Spin" -------------- ¶8. (C) Querard spent much of the meeting outlining her efforts to impr ¶9. (SBU) ACTION REQUESTS for L/CID: Post requests a copy of Bruce Zag -------------- Help from the Isle of Man -------------- ¶10. (C) Querard listed Ian Moncrief-Scott, an Isle of Man-based consul ¶11. (C) Querard stated that HMB is a privately held corporation. Orig -------------- Corrupt Attorney General? -------------- ¶12. (C) Querard repeated her long-standing allegation that GOAB Attorn -------------- Where Stands the Case? -------------- ¶13. (SBU) Querard did not offer any substantial updates to the informa -------------- Comment -------------- ¶14. (C) Soon after PM Spencer and his United Progressive Party came to