A legal battle is taking place in the United States to get international fraudster, Eric Resteiner to release the video-tape about a controversial trip that was made to his luxury villa in St. Moritz, Switzerland in June 2000 by Grenada Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Mitchell.

The video-tape allegedly depicts Dr. Mitchell collecting a briefcase of money from Resteiner for the purpose of a bribe to land a diplomatic position with the Grenada government. Resteiner is held in custody in Boston awaiting sentence on multiple charges of wire and mail fraud.

His former Chief of Security, Timothy Bass claimed in a sworn affidavit that the briefcase contained $US500, 000 and that he was instructed by the fraudster to secretly video-tape the transaction. Prime Minister Mitchell has publicly acknowledged meeting with Resteiner in Switzerland but said that he collected"approximately US$15, 000" to help him reimburse the cost of a trip that he was undertaking to several European cities and Kuwait.

The Grenadian leader also denied collecting the funds in a briefcase from Resteiner. However, he did not give any details about the exact nature of the transaction. But Dr. Mitchell assured Grenadians that he had"receipts" in his possession to back his story.

Now American oil investor, Jack Grynberg is trying to get the videotape to use as evidence in another bribery case that involves Grenada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy, Gregory Bowen. Grynberg is suing the Number Two Man in Grenada and three Russians for US$500, 000 for blocking his oil and gas agreement after he refused to allegedly pay a bribe that was being demanded by Bowen.

One of Grynberg's lawyer, Daniel Abrams has made a formal application to the judge involved in the Resteiner matter for permission to be granted for him to serve a subpoena on the fraudster to get a copy of the matter. The document below shows the hand-written note from the judge in which she granted permission on March 14 to the Grynberg Group to issue the subpoena on the fraudster.