ees lo = NAF1/US50C _VOLI7 NO. 333 ise the 92rd day of 2017. There are 222 days left inthe year Detained casino owner Francesco Corallo: a“, ° ° + Dump pe One day I will be acquitted 1,500 sig GREAT BAY ~ The online pete the Nature Foundation imitates Jast week about the constant Se (on the dump has hit 2mecre to last Friday, six gays ater i Taunch, 2,500 people bad sige the etition. Jn the petion, the Nature Fou lation urges the government immediately take action topreves any further dump fires; to al action now to get a solution fi Bikers die in early MONT VENON- Twstiedindi a SS rs Saco Francesco Corallois detained in his par ofthe police station where the cells ofthe House of Detention ere ected Photo Today / Hilbert Haar ae By Hilbert Faar of cell for an hour - 30 minutes in asmallwistor's oom tn the center the moming and 30 minutes inthe kis vided by agi: parson anc GREAT BAY - When the sun goes afternoon. That lawes 2553 hours Coralospoke wie sieose== down today casino owner Francesco of staring at the walls and wonder” cTophone. The setting sss = CCorallo wil’have spent daysina ingwhyonearthbelastobethere. somehow serene, Atthesamet=e= cellof the House of Detention at the On Friday morning I got access to felt lie Thad landedinascene fox police station in Philipsburg. That's Corallo-alsofortiartymamstes,after a bed American gangster movie. 2.664 hours. Fach day he's let out a batle with the bureaucracy that Outside the officer and a colesgme Yookmore han sicweeksanderded wateus,butthe man who hasbees with a laweule against Minister of calledalliindsof eamesinthemedi2 Justice Rafael Boasman andinterim speaks freely. prison director Steven Carty that He is dressed in an orange Nike Would have played out in court on running shirt and his steel gray alr ‘the same morning if Minister Boas- looks well Kept, No rangejurapsult 56 regard for the lives oF other man basnotmade the arangement kein some American prisonsandno agrees two days eailierto accommodate shackles or handeufls either. There" a rays i isnoangs ins oe at nae Roots ocerguited me othe less expected beforehand, Dace: "TY Bofinepolcesatin tiepat arsigrederesion,asitheas & © ern ofthebultingtiatfacesthe Pont ieiageteecee Road-where the cells ofthe Fouse finds himselin. Corallo began by J k7 Of Detention ae located. Twas not_ setting tptecord sai. ast wee. Mlowedtobringacemerscrrecre: “Ihave not been accsed of money lngesuipmentjostpen snd pepe, unde and otf bey ee Buttietiendlyaficedignoralow “t's abouts tax paymen® Satine fhisetthershepreseted mewiina back to December 2000, We paid botepac anda pen fern Inside the building, Corallo was ‘waiting for me. We shook hends ' ae Lighted Parade attract SSS Continued on page 5 pcomng Toarsday, went to Balate, but wo pald everything, ‘We also paid our profit taxes in installments, the way It ls allowed by law? When the RST arrested Cor- allo in Decomber of last year ‘with a lot of pootia =a video of the arrest was even sent to the media «the prosecutor's bffce sent out a press release stain that Corallo had been attested at the request of the ‘public prosecutor in Rome on ‘hatges of tax evasion bribery And money laundering, ‘The Ttallans algo indicated that law offoreement could selae at from Coral ‘or upto 426 mon, Thatre sulted inthe seisleafonwea- si 170 apart a yacht, eighteen expensive watehos and several bank accounts, Allof Corallos businesses are hhowever stl operational on thelsland, ‘The Italians thon took their time to filean ofclal request {or Cotallo extradition with. {nthe stipulated term of 40 days, ‘That term ended in January and ever since Cor- allo and his attorney Peppl Sulvatan have been waiting for a dato for an extradition: heating court, “One dayI willbe. A first shortsnotice date was refused by Sulvaran, because {tyavehimonlya wesktopre- pe, Corallosays,Tie second dato, May 2, was alsonot good ‘because on that day the court is closed for the Carnival Day holiday, A new date has not ‘een sot ye, CCorallo has asked in theearier stage of his detention for a ‘tansfer to the Polnte Blanche prison, but that was denied, Most of the guards here aro treating me okays ho says, but never soa doctor here ‘That could aise insues, be ae Caio ood proseure Is somawhere around 110-130, "ey measureitmaybe once every two weeks," he says “in Pointe Blanche there i a doctor and there are activi- ties.” Corallo also has dental ‘cscs that require specialist ‘treatment, For these reasons, there are two closed-door hearings in court tomorrow afternoon, ‘whereby his attorneys Eldon ‘Pepi? Sulvaran and Shaira Bommel will ask for the sus- pension of his detention until the extradition hearing and, if that does not work, for his ‘transfer to the Pointe Blanche prison, Asked how he is holding up, Gorallo says: "Very bad, 1d hhot understand why 1 am here" He has access to newspa bac aat om ttt ye are dull, “I know everything that a written on the wallsin my cell by heart, What Ido al day? Nothing, Ithink?: CCorallo wants to get through the court procedure a8 soon ‘as possible, At the same time hho wonders why he hea been targeted. "Why only-mo? Ev- erybouy is doing the same the? ‘The casino-owner says that hhe thought the Dutch Justice ‘system was better than what hie is experiencing right now. “One hundred and ten days and I don’t even know a court date, They dou'teven do that imafiica, And you know why amnotallovied to goto Pointe Blanche? Because thedirector {s corrupt, But what does that hhave to do with me?” When Cotallo became news ‘with a supposedly crooked Joan from the Banca Popolare diMilan (BPM) in2012, he sug ‘gested that his competitors in the Italian gaming market Aro they maybe at it again this time? Corallo’s company HetPlus controls 75,00 video. slot machines in Italy and his, competitors would love to See him go down and grab a plece ofthis highly profitable ‘cake, *T cannot prove that of couse? he says with a litle sine on his face, “But itis ‘certainly a possiblicy Asif his own troubles with the ‘alia justice aystom are hot snough, Corallo’s ageing, fathor Gaeto suddenly came into the picture in November oflastyear witha lavsult, de- between $i0and $20 million in compensation for alleged theft of his properties, byhis son, Coralo sighs, “I'd rather not talk about this," he finally says, "But this 18a sad story, [My father is old and there is really nothing to it. Ido not ‘understand why Roland Dun- can the attomey for Corallo, ‘Sh.=ed.)is doing this?” orallo’s businesses, lke the ‘Starz Casino in Cupecoy, are still operational. ‘They are managed by his corporate attorney Roy Moes, “But he needs guidance, he is a cor- orate lawyer, and 1am only allowed to see him once a week?” Since Corallo is not just any detaineo, his safety at the House of Detention ig alsoan ‘issue, "In my cell | feel sate, ‘butit also depends on who is inthere withme, Somepeople have mental issues and t ‘makes it at times unsafe for everyone? ‘final messagefor thepeople \Whokeep hisbusinesses going and forthecommunty2 Gora {o"i}ust want tobeconewith allthis. wantto thankall the people who kept support tie vant justi tebe bre ang fa Nobody understands ‘Why Tam here, And one dy willbe acquitted” ————$—$ _______ Teenager missing... ...Frompoge... His mother filed a missing. pPetsons report on Saturday, ‘The young jean has a slim posture, darn brown com= lesion, dark brown eyes and black hair, the police sald in a Statement i “Anyone who has information ‘about the whereabouts of the rising teenager is urged to Contact the police department 54222 7 the emer gency number oi, ‘he police department asks the youngster, Fhe happens toread this repor, to contact his mother,