A Canadian man, the head of a vast con operation got a Belizean passport using fraudulent means. Not much is known, but news reports from Alberta, Canada say that former Chief Parliamentary Counsel in that country Michael Ritter came under indictment in 2003 and was ordered by the Canada court to surrender all his passports. That included one from Belize, which he obtained under an alias.

48-year-old Ritter is accused of conspiring to launder US$43 million stolen Merrill Lynch and organizing a $290 million Ponzi scheme. He violated his bail in Canada when he tried to do there what he had already done here: apply for a Canadian passport under a false name.

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