Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2015-06-05: Affaire relative à l’audit de la gestion financière de la Mairie des Côtes-de-Fer
Summary: The court's published summary of its judgment of 2015-06-05 in the following case: Affaire relative à l’audit de la gestion financière de la Mairie des Côtes-de-Fer. The court sat in its financial jurisdiction. The summary gives the facts, the texts applied and the operative ruling. The court publishes these summaries rather than the judgments themselves, and they are most of what is publicly available of Haitian financial and administrative case law.
Key Findings
- The 5 June 2015 CSCCA decision ruled on discharge requests for Cotes-de-Fer city hall management over October 2009 to September 2014.
- Two administrations were covered: Jean Michel Moise and deputies from October 2009 to September 2012, and Widner Losier and team from September 2012 to September 2014.
- Because city hall was flooded on 30 August 2012 and archives deteriorated, the commission could audit only September 2012 to September 2014.
- The audit found 2.65 million gourdes spent without justification, rare financial reports outside public-accounting norms and informal cash-based transactions by the cashier-paymaster.
- The Auditorat noted 14.057 million gourdes in spending during October 2012-September 2014 with several million unjustified.
- The Court granted discharge to the first administration and some deputy mayors, but issued a debit judgment against Widner Losier and paymaster Mathias Devil for 2.16573 million gourdes and ordered the communal commission president's dismissal.
How to cite
Superior Court of Accounts and Administrative Disputes (CSCCA), Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2015-06-05: Affaire relative à l’audit de la gestion financière de la Mairie des Côtes-de-Fer, https://cscca.gouv.ht/