Haiti - Justice : Summonses against Dorsinvil and two advisers of the CEP
Following the convocation by the new Government Commissioner Sonel Jean-François, as part of the ongoing investigation on allegations of corruption and electoral fraud, of 4 electoral advisers of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and its President Gaillot Dorsinvil and of their absences the Commissioner of the Government wanted provide explanations on this file and inform of the legal provisions that he has taken to enforce justice.
"...there is an investigation that was opened by the former Government Commissioner [Harrycidas Auguste], some members of the Provisional Electoral Council, appeared to the prosecution and were auditioned, but unfortunately the other members that we invited have not come to the prosecutor. I think they have challenged the authority of Justice while there is a presumption of corruption of officials [...] There is information that is open, it is necessary that we hear them on the facts that the public clamour alleges, there was a scandal in the last elections [...] Since the law puts at our disposal what we call, the summons, we will force them to come to the public prosecutor so that we can hear them on the facts alleged against them [...] We gave instructions to the Central Directorate of Judicial Police (DCPJ) to apprehend and bring it as is, to the public prosecutor, the named Gaillot Dorsinvil, Ribel Pierre and Leonel Raphaël. There are two other advisers who are not come yesterday, [Mr. Anténor Guerrier and Jacques Belzin] but they are sick and have medical certificates [...]"
