Draft law on the organisation and functioning of UCREF, version of 30 August 2016 under the Privert provisional presidency

A draft law organising the Unité Centrale de Renseignements Financiers, given at the National Palace on 30 August 2016 and signed by provisional president Jocelerme Privert.

The preamble cites constitutional articles 111, 111-1, 136, 234 and 236, the penal code, the law of 17 August 1979 creating the BRH, the decree of 30 March 1984 organising the Ministry of Justice, the decree of 27 March 1985 amending articles 9 and 17 of the BRH law, the decree of 13 March 1987 reorganising the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the law of 21 February 2001 on laundering the proceeds of drug trafficking and other serious offences, and the law of 7 August 2001 on the control and suppression of drug trafficking.

The final article repeals contrary laws, decree-laws and decrees, with execution by the Minister of Justice and Public Security. The corpus holds the 2013 anti-money-laundering law, the 2016 law amending it and the 2023 decree that replaced both, so this draft sits inside a documented chain. It matters for the reason a financial intelligence unit always does in Haiti: correspondent banking access depends on the country's standing in that regime, and assessors judge that standing on the unit's statutory independence.