ULCC's Response to the IMF Questionnaire on Haiti's Anti-Corruption Framework

This document is the ULCC's own written response to a questionnaire from the International Monetary Fund requesting information on Haiti's anti-corruption legal and institutional framework, most likely in support of an IMF governance diagnostic exercise (such assessments were conducted for several Fund member countries in the 2020s). It follows the questionnaire's own structure, opening with the legal framework: it confirms the relevant texts (the 2014 anti-corruption law, the 8 September 2004 decree creating the ULCC, the 12 February 2008 asset-declaration law, and its blank declaration form) are annexed to the response, and notes that Haiti's 2009-2018 national anti-corruption strategy had not yet been followed by an implementation assessment or a successor strategy at the time of writing, though the ULCC's annual reports for fiscal years 2019-2020 through 2022-2023 were also annexed.

On asset and interest declarations, it confirms these are treated as confidential rather than made public. On sanctions, it describes the quarter-salary withholding applied to officials who fail to declare within the statutory deadline, the additional Penal Code sanctions (loss of political and civil rights) that can follow a formal notice, and prosecution for falsification where a declaration is knowingly false; it reports that in the year preceding the response, 105 requests were sent to different government prosecutors (commissaires du gouvernement) to pursue mayors and deputies who had not filed, and that the ULCC had asked the Ministry of Economy and Finance to withhold a quarter of salary from 180 officials who had not complied three months after formal notice.

It also cites Article 238 of the Constitution and other constitutional provisions on the obligation to declare assets. Figures are as reported by the ULCC in its own response; the corpus text was extracted directly from the source .docx file (native text, no OCR).