* Haiti’s chief prosecutor of Port-au-Prince, Ocnam Clamé Daméus, has issued an order freezing the bank accounts of 36 companies. The companies are linked to the scandal involving some US$2bn in funds from Petrocaribe, Venezuela’s discounted oil initiative, which had allegedly been misused by local politicians and key public figures from September 2008 to September 2016. Companies affected include local companies National Trading, Haiti Supply, Sada Construction, and Sotec, as well as companies based in the neighbouring Dominican Republic (DR) such as Rofi SA which is controlled by DR Senator Félix Bautista, of the ruling Partido de la Liberación Dominicana (PLD). The move by Daméus follows the decision last month by Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse to replace two key allies - his chief-of-staff Wilson Laleau and the general secretary to the presidency Yves Germain Joseph – implicated in the scandal which has provoked widespread public anger.
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