Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2015-06-09: Affaire relative à l’audit de la gestion financière de la Mairie de Ganthier
Summary: The court's published summary of its judgment of 2015-06-09 in the following case: Affaire relative à l’audit de la gestion financière de la Mairie de Ganthier. 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 9 June 2015 decision covered the Ganthier city hall audit and discharge request for Mayor Ralph Lapointe, his deputies and cashier-paymaster Louis Louis-Jeunes for October 2007 to September 2014.
- The audit reviewed central-government subsidies, local taxation, cooperation funding, bank statements, payroll sheets, budgets and supporting documents.
- Ganthier city hall had three BNC accounts: a current account, a PIC project account and a cash-for-work account; the two project accounts were inactive and lacked statements or supporting documents.
- The current account rose from a 93,841.75 gourde balance on 1 October 2007 to 48.619234 million gourdes through deposits and transfers, with 506,681.23 gourdes at 30 September 2014.
- After supplemental documents, road and OCCOGAD documentation was accepted, but several checks lacked CSCCA approval and over 1.22 million gourdes remained unjustified.
- The Court found two frauds and issued a debit judgment against Ralph Lapointe and Louis Louis-Jeunes for 781,000 gourdes, ordering restitution and possible dismissal if still in office.
How to cite
Superior Court of Accounts and Administrative Disputes (CSCCA), Summary of the CSCCA judgment of 2015-06-09: Affaire relative à l’audit de la gestion financière de la Mairie de Ganthier, https://cscca.gouv.ht/