In a statement Bush said afterwards that the charges "were nothing more than the result of a conspiracy to remove me from power." 

He also said he had been the subject of intense investigation during the last three years and the authorities had found nothing at all criminal, despite probing all of his financial affairs.

He also said mentioned the British naval vessel HMS Argyll that arrived in Cayman last week during his trial.

“Let us be mindful," he said, "there is a warship stuck out there and I don’t think it is a coincidence. We must put an end to the police state that we are living in,”