Senate Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission: PetroCaribe Report, August 2016
- Puts the sums at issue at a little more than 2.2 billion US dollars.
- Sets the inquiry against the country it concerns: 78 percent of the population below the absolute poverty line, 56 percent in extreme poverty, unemployment above 40 percent, and more than 60 percent living in precarity.
- Records that the distributing firms have 30 days to pay BMPAD 100 percent of the amounts invoiced, which is the credit mechanism the fund rests on.
- Presented in August 2016 by the chair of the Senate's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, so it precedes the 2017 special commission report the corpus also holds.
This is the report of the Haitian Senate's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission on the PetroCaribe Fund, prepared by the commission's members and presented by its chair, Senator Youri Latortue, in August 2016 during the fiftieth legislature. The foreword states the commission's premise: that it opened its inquiry into the PetroCaribe Fund convinced it was responsible for bringing to light a set of dysfunctions within national institutions, public and private, and that those dysfunctions sustain corruption. The report is the first of the parliamentary PetroCaribe inquiries and precedes the Superior Court of Auditors' three audit reports on the fund; the corpus holds the CSCCA's third report. The copy held is marked penultimate version.
How to cite
Parliament of the Republic of Haiti; Senate of the Republic of Haiti, Senate Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission: PetroCaribe Report, August 2016, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/RAPPORT-COMMISSION-Ethique-et-Anti-Corrruption-22-AOUT-2016-penultime-version.pdf