Dominicans and Haitians are beneficiaries of looting in Haiti

Agent-x - May 13 2012, 4:48 PM

According to Acento-com-do on May 13th 2012[Article translated from sanish to English and Ayitien by google automatic trans lation, The cable news in Haiti indicates that the audit committee, composed of the attorney Stanley Gaston, the principal auditor Uder Paul Antoine and Paul Rachel, revealed irregularities involving 6 limited supply contracts totaling U.S. $ 348 000
Benoit: Dominicans and Haitians are beneficiaries of looting in Haiti
The Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation of Haiti states that recognizes the legitimate concerns about transparency and the fight against corruption
March 22, 2012
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Benoit: Dominicans and Haitians are beneficiaries of looting in Haiti Felix Bautista, senator and secretary of the LDP. Carmen Suarez / Acento.com.do
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SANTO DOMINGO, Republic Dominicana.-Haitian Senator Steven Benoit asked the Anti-Corruption Commission of Haiti's parliament to fulfill its responsibilities to the multimillion-dollar contracts scandal that would have been irregularly granted to Dominican and Haitian companies for engineering, as reported Haitian Press Agency (AHP).

Among the beneficiaries to those contracts that were awarded grade to grade, and Rofi HADOM are owned by the PLD senator Felix Bautista, and Design Building and NMR, owners and bound the legislator sanjuanero secretary of the ruling Party Dominican Liberation (PLD).

"This is a report showing how the country has been looted, that Dominicans are, with the complicity of Haitians the main beneficiaries, while victims of the tragedy of January 12, 2010, for whom the funds were specifically unlocked have been the big losers, "Benoit said the AHP.

The Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation of Haiti states that recognizes the legitimate concerns about transparency and the fight against corruption

The cable news in Haiti indicates that the audit committee, composed of the attorney Stanley Gaston, the principal auditor Uder Paul Antoine and Paul Rachel, revealed irregularities involving 6 contracts of limited supply for a total of U.S. $ 348 million, and irregularities 35 other contracts signed between grade to grade Prime Minister Rene Preval and 14 companies, totaling 83 million U.S. dollars.

"For many sectors in Haiti, the creation of this commission was what precipitated the fall of Prime Minister Garry Conille," the AHP.

On the other hand, the Haitian senator Youri Latortue called because they pave the way for a clarification of the scandal of the multimillion-dollar contracts awarded without bidding to several companies.

The news agency notes that the auditors, after analyzing contracts countersigned by the Prime Minister Rene Preval (Jean-Max Bellerive), mainly Dominican companies have confirmed that procurement procedures were not respected, and feared his successor Garry allegedly Conille, why set up a commission of inquiry.

Haitian senator said the contracts examined by the commission established by Conille not the only ones that have been approved under conditions that do not comply with procurement procedures.

"The preliminary report on the use of funds for reconstruction during the emergency period should give us the opportunity to review all contracts signed by the government of Haiti since 2008," he said.

Ministry rejects allegations pending report and

Furthermore, the Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation (MPCE) of Haiti on Wednesday that so far has not received any report of the commission established by the Prime Minister to review the contracts between the Ministry and private companies.

The ministry says the report for that entity does not exist, and that complaints have been pouring in Haiti "do more than hide the benefits and the positive work done under its auspices for the Haitian population."

The Ministry of Planning and External Cooperation of Haiti states that recognizes the legitimate concerns about transparency and the fight against corruption, which is why he wants "serene and necessary debate" on these issues, "is not reduced to an instrument of exclusively political destabilization, or even have personal interests as the only objective.

Felix Bautista, a man of luck and fortune

In his declaration of assets of the Year in 1996 presented a Baptist heritage of only 547 thousand dollars, and later, in 2010, assuming the senate, introduced a heritage 16 million pesos.

The senator and secretary of the government of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) has become in recent years in a wealthy building contractor, with companies that get into the country, Haiti and Panama with multi-million dollar investment, it is amazing what was achieved in just two years

Unless you count in 2010 and his current wealth and declared all that had accumulated since 1996.

Felix Bautista ran for four years OISOE in the first government of Leonel Fernandez (1996-2000), the then Works Bureau of the State Coordinator and operated separately from the Office of Supervising Engineers of the State Works.

Later the two were merged into the OISOE, and remains an unexplained invention in a country with a Ministry of Public Works.

Until then a very low profile political officer, became news when leaving the government in 2000, was brought to trial on corruption charges linked to the construction of the road to San Juan de la Maguana to Vallejuelo.

Although he was imprisoned, he managed to get away to be finally discharged.

When Leonel Fernandez returned to power in 2004, again Baptist was named to head the agency, a position where he remained until 2010, when he was elected senator for the province of San Juan.

Not if first going through the offense of being accused in 2007 of violating Article 37 of the Constitution in concluding an agreement on an irregular basis by $ 130 million with the Sun Land Corporation, SA, bypassing Congress.

The case caused a major scandal splashed himself president Leonel Fernandez.

But the record failed due to a ruling by the Supreme Court.

When the OISOE Baptist came to go to the Senate, in its place was a chemical engineer named Luis Wilfredo Mu

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