
Anti-corruption investigators in Haiti have recommended criminal charges against three members of the country's Transitional Presidential Council and a former bank director. The accusations stem from claims that the officials solicited over $750,000 in bribes from the former director of the state-owned National Bank of Credit (BNC), in exchange for allowing him to retain his position.
The three council members, Smith Augustin, Louis Gérald Gilles, and Emmanuel Vertilaire, along with the former bank director, Raoul Pascal Pierre-Louis, are accused of abusing their positions and engaging in corruption.