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Fifa vice-president Jack Warner Cashing in on Haiti disaster
As the United States launches criminal proceedings against officials of world football's governing body and after Seven officials and associates were arrested in Zurich earlier this week, new we have Haiti emerging as one of Fifa's most extravagant expenses claims within the past several years.
It was reported that after the Haiti earthquake of 2010, the president of FIFA, pledged some money to Haiti. However, former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner did not think all that money should go to Haiti.
But Yves Jean-Bart, head of the Haitian Football Association, claimed only to have seen a fraction of that money reach his country. According to the head of Haitian Football Association, Yves Jean-Bart, only a small portion of that money ever reached Haiti. Among many expanses that could not be traced, Jack Warner contracted with a company in his native country of Trinidad to produce emergency supplies for Haiti in the amount of $229,000. There is one problem: that particular company never existed.
Ex-FIFA Official Embezzled $750,000 intended for Haiti Earthquake Relief
Ex-FIFA Vice President, Jack Warner, is under fire for misappropriation of funds he raised from FIFA and the Korean Football Association, a sum of $750,000.
U.S. prosecutors have been investigating him, and want him extradited from Trinidad and Tobago to answer charges of corruption and bribery in court.
He is alleged to have redirected $750,000, earmarked to help survivors from Haiti's 2010 earthquake, into his personal accounts. He claims he is innocent of all charges.
Panama Papers and the Haitian Connection
We have learned that there is an involvement of some Haitians in the Panama Papers leaks.
The Panama Papers are an unprecedented leak of 11.5 million files from the database of world's fourth largest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca, specializing in the creation of offshore companies. The leak has also revealed how the rich and powerful people, sometime hide their assets. Some documents found in Panama leak, suggest how politically connected Haitian officials tried to make profits from fuel shortage in Haiti out of a 2014 oil deal valuing $30 million between Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago. Some of the Haitian characters involved in the scandal are, Georges Andy René, who served as head of the Centre de Facilitation des Investissements (from August 2012 to February 2014), an ex-bank executive, and Ralph Pereira, a close friend of former President Michel Martelly. Georges Andes Rene, as the head of Haiti's State-run investment agency, and advisor to then Prime Minister Lamothe, set up shell companies - through Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca to benefit from the deal. In last month, Senator Ronald Lareche said, a special commission would be created to investigate the spending and contracts under former President Michel Martelly's 2011-2016 administration.
The Art of contracting with the Dead in Haiti
May, 2016 - According to Senator Youri Latortue, president of the anti- corruption commission of the Senate, Minister of Health, Florence Duperval Guillaume, signed a contract with a dead person. The person who died in April, still had his name and his signature affixed at the bottom of a registered government contract in September of the same year (5 Months later). The Minister confirmed that maybe it was the wife of the dead who acts on its behalf. This does not hold because the ghost signer was divorced for more than 15 years
Kerlson Charles and Enoch Géné Génélus
Here is a picture of the Former Government Commissioners Kerlson Charles Kerlson Charles and Enoch Géné Génélus
As per news report dated April 20, 2015, two Government Commissioners, one from Port-au-Prince and the other from Gonaïves have been terminated on charges of unfair practices. Government Prosecutors Kerson Darius Charles of Port-au-Prince ordered a trial by himself in the case of Woodly Etheart, alias Samson Lafamilia that caused the release of two well known criminals from Gang Galil, Woodly Etheart, alias Samson Lafamilia, and Renel Nelfort. This happened because at the end of the trial, the prosecutors asked that the charges are to be dropped.
In subsequent period, the Commissioner ignored a series of complaints lodged by the victims. Government Commissioner Enoch Géné Génélus was sacked because he released a prisoner (Madsen Clervoyant, a Haitian-American businessman who was imprisoned by an unjustified means with a motive of extortion) temporarily to visit bank and draw $50,000 to pay for an out of the court settlement for his release. Clervoyant is still detained in the prison, never released.