Haiti - FLASH : Youri Latortue accuses the Embassy of Haiti in Washington of embezzlement
Accordin to former opposition Senator Youri Latortue, former Chairman of the Senate Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, said officials from the Haitian Embassy in Washington embezzled an amount estimated at nearly $4 million.
According to Latortue this amount would have been disbursed as passport production for several consulates and he is calling for an investigation to be opened to identify the perpetrators of these embezzlements.
Reacting to these accusations, the Ambassador of Haiti in Washington Bocchit Edmond gives a formal denial "The Embassy denies formal to the rumors according to which 4 million dollars have disappeared from its coffers. No audit has been carried out, how a person can tell the amount that would have gone missing. The Embassy acknowledges that some embassies and consulates in debt have yet to send in passport or money application forms."
