Washakie fraud defendant paid thousands of dollars to man next in line to lead Belize, Utah’s Jacob Kingston testifies

Lev Aslan Dermen, who is on trial in a Utah-based biofuels fraud, paid bundles of cash to the Belize security minister, a former co-defendant testified Monday.In Jacob Kingston’s third day on the witness stand, he told a federal jury that he and Dermen, also known as Levon Termendzhyan, traveled to Belize in 2013 with plans to build a casino there. Kingston testified he saw Dermen meet with John Saldivar, the Central American country’s security minister.“Did you ever witness [D