An Inter-Agency Blacklist Needed?
from the May, 2017 issue of Undercurrent
Undercurrent received a story from Henri Hemmerechts, who invested in a diving business running
instructor courses in Dahab, in Egypt's Sinai, only
to later discover he had been the victim of a person
who had falsified his SSI Instructor Certifier certification.
It turned out that the [Egyptian] perpetrator
of this fraud also made a habit of getting holiday
girlfriends to invest in his imaginary businesses. The
sorry tale was brought to a conclusion only after he was arrested by the police on a range of charges including
possession of hard drugs, for which he was convicted.
That was three years ago. However, it seems the miscreant
has turned up again and is back teaching diving
in the south of Egypt. With no governing body to regulate
the training agencies (that jealously guard commercially
sensitive information), isn't it time that diving
training agencies shared intelligence about proven
criminals in their midst?
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