Government will return 6 million dollars from Dictator Jean Claude Duvalier to Haiti
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BERN, Switzerland (AP) — The Swiss government is ready to give the Haitian government $6 million seized from bank accounts linked to former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, authorities said Thursday.The Duvalier family failed to prove that the money is of legitimate origin and is therefore not entitled to the assets, the Federal Office of Justice said.
The family has 30 days to appeal the decision with Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Tribunal.
The assets “are to be used for social or humanitarian projects to benefit the Haitian population,” the office said.
It said it would implement the projects through aid organizations in Haiti and make sure the money would be used in a transparent way.
Many in Haiti consider the money was stolen from public funds before Duvalier was ousted in 1986. He has always denied that.
The money, which has been frozen since 2002, is in accounts in the names of Duvalier, who is believed to be living in exile in France, and members of his family.
Swiss aid organizations said Haiti urgently needed the money to bring food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands suffering from the impact of four tropical storms and hurricanes that battered the impoverished Caribbean nation during last year’s harvest season.
Switzerland has traditionally been a favorite location for dictators’ money because of its banking secrecy rules. But reforms over the past two decades have made it harder to hide money in Switzerland, and the country has become a world leader in returning such cash.
Of about $730 million in Swiss accounts linked to the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha, virtually all has been returned to the West African country.
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bonjours Mr l’expresident d’haiti Mr jean Claude Duvalier nous sommes heureux de vous voir vivre toujours dans le souci de se revendiquer d’une maniere sensible , maintenant il est temps de voir qu’haiti a besoin des fans to prendre la responsablite en mains je veux voir tous les fils d’haiti se deploient un par un afin d’en sortir le pays dans la situation qu’il se trouve maintenant ok j’ai une question est ce que vous voulez retourner en haiti votre pays natal est ce que vous avez planifie pour votre retour en haiti parlez avec moi dans mon adresse je veux parler avec vous sur cette question de retourner en haiti dites moi qu’est le probleme pour vous de retourner chez vous est ce que vous avez peur les represailles et les kidnapings en haiti tous sont des actes de CIA pour moi je donne guarantie que rien ne serait vous arrive vous serez entre les bonnes mains et votre securite serait controllée de seconde a la minute so dont worry we are waiting for you because haiti have big problem right now no leader noone to help the country get out of what he get himself in because UN suppose to leave the country next year so what will be look like haiti next year who is going to vote for who he is going to vote do you know so I believe the children are the future so let’s save them and without you the children of haiti will be in the same problem they are now it gets worst and worst every day haiti become more and more difficult every day we have different thing happen so god bless you I wait for your answer francois
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yes I see what the us government say about you if you return to haiti you will face the criminal justice so they give 30 days to appearl for the money in switzerland so this is not a problem just planing for your return to your home land which is haiti so if you have to face the justice every others persons who passed in the haitian government will have to face the justice not only you and tell any body that you are not alone your back up are still in haiti wait for you to come back home francois A SAY
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