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The Fast Flip And Come Up, Vega Style
posted (October 13, 2016)

As you hear on the news ever single night, the Government is under pressure to clamp down on corruption, and so a new revelation of a highly questionable land deal land comes up at a very bad time for the PM. It involves the former Deputy Prime Minister, Gaspar Vega, and his son, Andre, and the details of this deal gives cause for you to shake your head. It starts and ends with this prime piece of real estate near the Haulover Bridge. It’s identified as in the Lands Registry System as Entry 14608, a  1.057-acre parcel between the Caribbean Sea and the Phillip Goldson highway. 

The documents show that on January 14, 2013, Gaspar Vega approved the purchase of the piece of land from the Government to Hilmar Alamilla, who is well-connected to Vega. The land was assessed at just over 6 thousand dollars, 
but, as seen in this document, Gaspar Vega directed Lands Commissioner Wilbert Vallejos to discount the value of the land to $2,500. The documents do not explain why he complied with such a questionable directive to give yet another discount on this expensive piece of sea frontage. 

These documents show that lands surveyors at the Department clearly instructed their bosses that this piece of land is privately owned, and not Government land. 

This meant that it should have not been sold, but the Lands Department did so anyway.

The title was issued to Alamilla on May 7, 2013, 

and on December 30, 2013, Alamilla sold the land, which you’ll remember belongs to someone else. Who did he sell it to? That new paper owner became no less than Gaspar Vega’s son, Andre, who became sort of infamous for the Mek Mi Rich case last year.

But you’ll remember that this land is private, and so, the hustle becomes compounded when the Government, having sold land it shouldn’t have, then needed to compensate Andre Vega for his involvement in the paper ownership. 

The real value of the land is assessed at a whopping 400 thousand dollars which the Government then has to compensate Vega for. On September 3, 2015, right before Vega had to hand over the portfolio to Godwin Hulse, an agreement was made between Dominique Gomez, (acting on behalf of her boyfriend Andre Vega) as vendor and the Government of Belize as purchaser. GOB agreed to pay Gomez/Vega $400,000, with the sum of $100,000 immediately and $50,000 every month until the full amount was paid.

So, that’s it, that’s how just for $15,000, Andre Vega came up on almost half a million dollars of the Government’s money.

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