Bermuda rocked by corruption allegations, followed by attempt to gag the media

Bermuda, which portrays itself to the world as the ‘clean’ face of offshore finance, much to the disdain of rival jurisdictions in the Caribbean, has been rocked by evidence of corruption involving several senior politicians, including Premier Ewart Brown.
The evidence was contained in a two-and-half-years-old police report into an $8 million corruption scandal at Bermuda Housing Corporation — a government-funded quango set up to build affordable housing — that was leaked to the local Mid-Ocean News newspaper, which had first exposed the scam in 2002.