R. Allen Stanford's receiver and investors' committee sued Antigua, the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank and 23 former Stanford Financial Group Co. executives over allegations they aided the financier’s $7 billion fraud, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. The Official Stanford Investors Committee seeks repayment of at least $90 million in documented loans Stanford made to the dual-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda and accuses its elected officials of having been "Stanford's partners in crime." The nation’s leaders shielded Stanford’s scheme and traded choice real estate for as much as $230 million in loans that have not been repaid, according to the lawsuit.
