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Haiti's auditors, looking into Petrocaribe fraud, denouncing government intimidation at stifling publication of their report.

La Cour des Comptes sous pression de l’Exécutif et menace d’incendie

 

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The Court of Auditors under pressure from the Executive and threat of fire


Monday, May 20, 2019 ((rezonodwes.com)) -

The Court of Accounts under pressure from the executive!

May 18, 2018 - A few days before the official publication of the final audit report of the Superior Court of Audit and Administrative Disputes (CSCCA) on the management of the Petrocaribe program funds, intense pressure is exerted on advisers of the institution to delay the publication of the said report.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, an adviser to the Court of Auditors, said that relatives of the executive branch undertook a massive intimidation operation against the institution's advisers.

The report of the Court of Accounts on the management of Petrocaribe funds is ready and will be published at the end of May, he reassured.

The final report of the Court of Accounts also looks at the record of the 25 stadiums built under the Martelly / Lamothe administration, which is still being traced.

However, he says, the Court of Auditors is facing difficulties in paying the technicians involved in the audit.

He said that the Ministry of Finance has still not put the necessary funds to pay the technicians who participated in the survey, available to the CSCCA.

According to him, the refusal of the Ministry of Finance to disburse funds to pay the investigators and auditors who carried out the audit, participates maneuvers aimed at sabotaging the effort of the Court of Auditors in order to make the day on the management of the Petrocaribe fonds.

The approach of MPs close to the executive threatening to bring an indictment against CSCCA advisers is also part of the same maneuvers aimed at intimidating councilors, he said.

Many civil society organizations and petrochemical groups, including Nou Pap Konplis and Together Against Corruption, have recently rejected the presidential deputies 'approach and supported the Court of Auditors' advisers and urged them to make public the faster, the full report of the institution on the management of Petrocaribe funds.

Recall that the partial report of the Court of Accounts had virtually confirmed the two previous reports produced by two special senatorial commissions and indexed former prime ministers, ministers and President Jovenel Moses in the alleged squandering of $ 4.2 billion Petrocaribe funds.

Threat of fire from the Court of Accounts!

18 May 2019- In addition to the threats and pressures on the Court of Auditors' advisers to not publish the full audit report on the management of Petrocaribe funds, bandits linked to petro-dilapidators would prepare to burn down the Court, informs a source close to the institution.

The objective of those who planned this act would be to remove all documents related to the Petrocaribe file processed by the Court of Auditors as part of its audit, since advisers continue to publish their report from next week, has we learned.

According to a source close to the Court of Accounts, these bandits can take action at any time. Hence the need for all petrochallengers to mobilize and make solidarity with the advisers of the Court of Accounts, suggests our source.

The source also encourages citizens to be vigilant and to stand guard permanently in front of the premises of the Superior Court of Accounts to prevent the bandits from implementing their plans.

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La Cour des Comptes sous pression de l’Exécutif et menace d’incendie

 

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Corruption: Human rights organizations demand the resignation of Jovenel Moïse

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Petro Caribe - Fancy pink bracelet: the tandem Martelly-Lamothe ordered 11,000 for about 1 million HTG, reveals the Court

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Petro Caribe report completed: an expert compares it to the "break of the century"
June 1, 2019 Rezo Nodwes

The 612 pages of the final version of the Petro Caribe report are indicative of a vast financial conspiracy orchestrated by the administrations Préval, Martelly and Privert, judges the economist Énomy Germain.

Saturday, June 1, 2019 ((rezonodwes.com)) - By handing over on Friday to the President of the Grand Corps, Carl Murat Cantave, the full report of the audit of the Petro Caribe Program, the advisers of the Superior Court of Accounts and the Administrative litigation think they have done work worthwhile. CSC / CA President Pierre Volmar Desmesyeux and his peers, after extensive reviews of supporting documents and contract documents, submitted the document to the Senators Assembly for action.

" As promised, the CSC / CA committed to submit version 2 of the Venezuelan fund management report in May. The constraints related to the socio-political context of last February did not allow the report to be ready in April . Another versification concerning the governance of Venezuelan funds will be presented in September " , promises Pierre Volmar Desmeyeux.

On the web, even before the CSC / CA advisors reached the Senate doors, the document became viral. From expert commentary to secular interpretations, opinions diverge. Some discover a vast operation of financial makeup unpublished. For the economist Énomy Germain, the verification of the technicians of the administrative court reveals a "break of the century".

' ' In the light of the work provided by the judges, the site of the Delmas Viaduct presents strong administrative irregularities. It was revealed that 2 disbursements, sweating large abnormalities were operated on. For the street lighting electrification program, the disbursement was $ 22 million higher than the real value of the project. In clear terms, the management of the Petro Caribe funds is akin to a break-up of the century, " says Enomy Germain .

Several levels of responsibility

Three levels of responsibility have been identified in the Petro Caribe case, says the economics expert. Central government officials (Ministers, Directors General, Secretaries of State), public procurement technicians and firms are implicated in this vast financial crime, says Enomy Germain.

" The Petro Caribe scandal, taking into account the mobilized capital, goes beyond the Consolidation Process and the Stamps Process. This financial crime challenges collusion, fraud, planned malpractices to mortgage the future of a whole people '' , indignant Elomy Germain.

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Rapport Petro Caribe complété : un expert le compare à la ‘’casse du siècle’’

 

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The final @ComptesCour report on #Petrocaribe does not give @moisejovenel a free pass. The president's firm Agritrans is mentioned 69 times in the report's 612 pages. And the findings don't look good for the Banana Man.

Full Report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vnrKH7bF8GImh4xJPPhR2OVfutD9L0Bu/view?usp=sharing …


In one of the more egregious examples cited by the auditors, two companies received contracts for virtually the same exact work. One was Agritrans, the other Betex. But here’s the thing, the companies themselves look exactly the same on paper.

Auditors then went to a site where they were considered to be in the market.

 

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President Moïse’s Companies “Embezzled” Millions of PetroCaribe Funds, Court Finds


June 5, 2019

A section of the road between Borgne and Petit Bourg de Borgne. Jovenel Moïse’s companies did little or no repair work on the road despite being paid twice for it. Credit: CSCCA

In its Second bombshell report released on Fri., May 31, 2019, Haiti’s Superior Court of Auditors and Administrative Disputes (CSCCA) has charged two companies belonging to Haitian President Jovenel Moïse with “collusion, favoritism and embezzlement,” directly linking the embattled head of state to massive corruption in the spending of about $2 billion from Haiti’s PetroCaribe Fund.

The CSCCA details how Moïse’s companies Agritrans and Betexs (which were effectively the same company with identical staffs, agreement numbers, patent numbers, and tax identification numbers) received about $1.65 million in similar contracts to repair the same stretch of winding dirt road between the northern town of Borgne and the small village of Petit Bourg de Borgne. Agritrans was paid 39,990,399 gourdes ($894,640) and Betexs got 34,998.785.50 gourdes ($752,662), but both apparently did nothing or, at the most, very little.

Having “serious doubts about the reality and the effectiveness of the work on this road” and “in order to dispel doubts, the Court visited the site,” the CSCCA wrote in its report. What they found was “a huge gap between the amounts spent and the reality of the work that was supposed to have been done.” The report contains pictures of the unrenovated dirt road.

MORE DEMONSTRATIONS ARE PLANNED IN THE COMING DAYS TO DEMAND PROSECUTIONS FOR THE FINANCIAL CRIMES THE COURT REVEALED.

Even more outrageous was that in August 2014, the Haitian Public Works Minister advanced Agritrans 19 million gourdes ($359,168) months before a bid was made or a contract signed.

“Disbursing funds for a project before the conclusion and signing of the contract, in addition using them for other purposes, is abnormal or illegal,” the court stated in its report.

President Moïse has yet to respond to the report. More demonstrations are planned in the coming days to demand prosecutions for the financial crimes the Court revealed. The disclosures have also renewed and reinforced the long-standing calls for Moïse’s resignation.

The CSCCA had issued a first report on PetroCaribe corruption in January. In that report, the Court had raised questions about the PetroCaribe-financed “Ban’m Limyè Ban’m Lavi” (Give Me Light, Give Me Life) project, in which it found irregularities and a lack of documentation. Jovenel Moïse’s solar company Comphener S.A. received 4,875,148.41 gourdes ($111,305) for installing solar panels on street lamps under that questionable project.

From 2008 to 2018, Venezuela provided Haiti with $4.3 billion in cheap oil. Haiti was able to put 40% of the oil revenues in the PetroCaribe Fund, repayable after 25 years at 1% interest. It was supposed to pay for social benefit projects like schools, clinics, and roads.

The CSCCA’s 612 page report contains numerous other examples and details of government corruption and mismanagement, which we will return to in the coming weeks. The Court reviewed only 77% of the PetroCaribe funds spent, lacking documentation for 23%, and looked at the period from September 2008 to September 2016.

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President Moïse’s Companies “Embezzled” Millions of PetroCaribe Funds, Court Finds | Haiti Liberte

 

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Sad to see all this going on i keep telling my girl to tell her family to not travel there right now but they still going as far as i know

 

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What's going on?

 

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little history on the criminals of Haiti that work with the US

Murdering drug lord Michel "Sweet Mickey" Francois was arrested in #Honduras but later granted asylum by corrupt Supreme Court upon request by the CIA.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-08-mn-36040-story,amp.html …

Michel Francois was original "Sweet Mickey" named such 4 his penchant for pouring boiling cane sugar on Lavalas victims during torture. He was so idolized by neo-Duvalierist & #PHTK ruling party founder Michel Martelly that the latter adopted it as his stage name & persona.

 

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Exiled Haitian Police Official Held on Smuggling Charges

MIKE CLARY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

March 8, 1997


Port-au-Prince's exiled police chief, a shadowy, ruthless figure believed to have engineered the 1991 coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and pitched Haiti into three years of bloody turmoil, has been charged with helping to smuggle more than 33 tons of Colombian cocaine and heroin into the U.S.

According to an indictment unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court here, Lt. Col. Joseph Michel Francois met face-to-face with the leaders of three Colombian cartels to arrange for drug shipments to pass through Haiti via a private airstrip he helped build and protect.

The 50-page indictment naming 13 people was unsealed after Francois, 39, was arrested in Honduras, where he has been living under a grant of political asylum since April. He is expected to be flown to Miami today to face formal arraignment.

"It's been a major, major case," said Wilfredo Fernandez, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office.

The indictment charges that Francois took part in a "conspiracy to establish a cocaine- and heroin-distribution network through Haiti, employing in large part the political and military institutions of that country."

All but three of those named in the indictment have been arrested. One of those in custody is a security worker at Miami International Airport who is accused of escorting drug couriers off flights from Haiti.

Fernandez said Francois long has been the target of an investigation into drug trafficking involving former Haitian police and military leaders. He added that the Honduran government has been "extremely helpful and cooperative in arranging for the extradition."

Francois fled to Honduras after he and Franck Romain, the former mayor of Port-au-Prince, were arrested in the Dominican Republic and charged with conspiring against the government of President Rene Preval. The pair had been in the Dominican Republic since October 1994, two weeks after U.S. troops escorted Aristide back to the Haitian capital.

In September, Francois was convicted in absentia in Haiti and sentenced to life at hard labor for the 1993 killing of a Haitian businessman who was a major financial backer of Aristide.

But long before that, Francois was well-known to both Haitians on the street and U.S. officials in Washington as a behind-the-scenes power broker given to secrecy and control through a national police force that many compared to a death squad. Behind his back, ordinary Haitians referred to Francois as "Sweet Mickey." Dante Caputa, U.S. special envoy to the United Nations, publicly called him a "killer."

A 1993 U.S. Government Accounting Office report alleged that Francois and army chief Raoul Cedras, then heading the government, protected the annual passage of 50 tons of Colombian cocaine through Haiti. The indictment alleges that he met personally with Medellin kingpin Pablo Escobar and others to discuss U.S.-bound drug shipments.

Cedras, in exile in Panama, was not named in the indictment.

Miami attorney Ira Kurzban, general counsel in the U.S. for the Haitian government, said Francois' arrest "removes temporarily a person who has engaged in gross violation of human rights in Haiti, including summary executions, torture and unlawful incarceration of thousands."

Kurzban added, however, that trying Francois could prove to be embarrassing for the U.S. government if evidence suggests that the CIA "either turned a blind eye to his activities or had him on the payroll."

Published reports indicate that the CIA helped create and fund both SIN, Haiti's national intelligence service, and the Front for Advancement and Progress of Haiti, a pro-military organization. Francois, who attended U.S. military command training for foreign officers in Georgia, was associated with both.

News of Francois' indictment was greeted with huzzahs on the streets of Miami's Little Haiti, a neighborhood made up of many who went into exile because of run-ins with the former police chief's forces.

"Everybody knows about him," said Samedi Florville, director of community outreach at the Haitian Refugee Center. "He is a criminal, a Saddam, a Hitler. He is mean."

Florville said that Francois' arrest was sure to dominate the conversation at Friday evening's regular community meeting. "There will be many people here who have been his victims," he said. "I tell you, everybody loves this news."

In Port-au-Prince, Haitian officials said they would seek Francois' return to face charges of murder and human rights abuses. "This is a person that Haitian justice has been looking for for quite some time," said Justice Ministry advisor Jerome Jean Noel.

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