Louis Gerald Gilles

Haiti charges interim council members in $770,000 bribery scandal

PORT-AU-PRINCE – On Wednesday, Haiti’s anti-corruption agency charged five prominent figures with corruption, including three members of an interim governing council, over a bribery scandal involving the chairman of a state-owned bank. The council members, who are part of a nine-member body appointed in April to serve as the country’s executive branch until elections, are accused of abuse of office,…