Fraudulent flag expansion prompts government warnings but little action
MSTA Registry, the company behind fake flag and seafarer certification scams in St Maarten, Timor Leste and Matthew Islands, has links to Belize, California, India and China
The Caribbean island of St Maarten has joined a growing queue of governments issuing warnings regarding fake ship registries being operated in their name, but so far little progress has been made in shutting them down
