Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2015-06-05: Affaire relative à l’audit de la gestion financière de la Mairie de Pétion-Ville
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 de Pétion-Ville. 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 sanctioned Petion-Ville city hall financial management for November 2012 to March 2015.
- The audit examined transactions and inventory for the municipal council led by Mayor Minerve Yvanka Jolicoeur Brutus.
- The BRH operating and payroll accounts were found free of irregularities, but the BNC operating account showed serious weaknesses.
- The BNC account included unauthorized disbursements, 950,000 gourdes used to pay Tabarre city hall salaries and more than 6.5 million gourdes in unjustified expenses.
- New supporting documents reduced unjustified expenses to 3.9 million gourdes.
- The Court maintained or granted discharge to several officials, but issued a debit judgment against Mayor Brutus and paymaster Jean Petion Napoleon for 950,000 gourdes and ordered restitution, asset freeze and mortgage preservation.
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 de Pétion-Ville, https://cscca.gouv.ht/