After dragging his son Andron into the Alfa Nero scandal, Gaston Browne has now dragged in his wife.
He did so by filing a defamation case in Antigua and Barbuda, whose law allows the people he accused to use records in foreign judisdictions.
Browne’s wife, Maria Bird Browne, is a government minister who might have been involved in illegal transactions.
She is now referenced in a recent Alfa Nero court memorandum, the subject of “requested records” that “concern transactions” involving Gaston Browne and “members of his family” – specifically identified in a footnote as “Browne’s wife, Maria Bird-Browne.”
Browne brought this upon his family all by himself, when he sued Alfa Nero attorney Martin De Luca and De Luca’s BSF law firm for defamation in Antigua.
Under our defamation laws, De Luca has the right to access information relating to the allegations of his accuser, Browne, which means he has right to access the financial and other record of Browne’s wife and son who are believed to be co-conspirators or material witnesses in the Alfa Nero deal.
A U.S. court ruled that De Luca could subpoena the prime minister’s son, Andron, who lives in Florida but appears to be hiding out in Antigua.
De Luca’s Memorandum of Law, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, says that “Gaston Browne …, the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Corporate Governance and Public Private Partnerships of Antigua and Barbuda, and the husband of the country’s Minister for Housing and Works, chose to put the money trail from his government’s sale of the Alfa Nero yacht on trial” when he sued De Luca and BSF for defamation in Antigua.
See the full court document here: https://mariabirdbrowne.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2026_10_19_Dkt._03_MEMORANDUM_OF_LAW_in_Support_re__1_EX_PARTE_MISCELLANEOUS.pdf
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