As part of its national outreach campaign around the law on the Prevention and Repression of Corruption published May 9, 2014 in the Official Journal #87 "Le Moniteur" which will run from July 2014 to August 2015, Me Joseph Jean Figaro, Director of Operations of the Unit for Combating Corruption (ULCC), which represented Colonel Antoine Atouriste, the Director General of the ULCC, proceeded to Miragoâne at the launch of Phase II of the campaign.

After the Phase I (North and the South), this campaign, which will run throughout the national territory, plans to sensitize all persons covered by this Act at the level of 10 departments of the country so that no one pretext ignorance. Training sessions and awareness around the law are provided for the Judges, Commissioners of the Government and substitutes, Lawyers, Judicial Police Officers (OPJ), Agents of the Public Service, Senators, Deputies and new elected officials issued from the next election.

Recall that this long awaited law, leaves no room to fraudsters and considers as unlawful acts inter alia : Ia bribery, illicit enrichment, laundering of proceeds of crime, embezzlement of public property, abuse of position, payoff, kickbacks, over-invoicing, influence peddling, nepotism, insider trading, illegal procurement, unlawful taking of interest, abuse of social goods, the favoritism, bribery of foreign public officials and officials of public international organizations and the suppression of unlawful banking practices and other acts qualified as such by law, subject to punitive sanctions more severe.

Download the full text of the law (PDF) :

https://www.haitilibre.com/docs/loi_portant_prevention_repression_de_la_corruption-mai-2014.pdf

The enactment of this law, allowing to better prevent corruption, come strengthens the capacity of control of institutions and lawsuits thanks to the new offenses in force in Haitian law that penalize at the same time corrupted and corrupters.

HL/ HaitiLibre