Wednesday, December 14, 2011

ARTICLE - POLICE SEIZE 6 DRUG PROPERTIES

POLICE SEIZE SIX PROPERTIES FROM DRUG TRAFFICKERS
(Defend Haiti) -

PORT-AU-PRINCE - The Office of Financial and Economic Affairs (BaFe) of the National Police of Haiti (PNH), seized ten buildings on six properties belonging to drug traffickers tried and convicted in the United States from July to December 2011.

A report circulating in legal circles says that five of the 10 buildings, now part of the private domain of the State, have a market value of about one million five hundred thousand (USD 1,500,000.00) dollars, Radio Kiskeya, obtaining the document said.

Confiscation of property, including beach properties, were carried out particularly in the Southeast; specifically in the municipalities of Thiotte, Anse-a-Pitre, Grand Gosier and Belle-Anse.

During the same period, BaFe has arrested at least nine individuals involved in issuing forged documents and using forged documents, stealing, money laundering, embezzlement, fraud, smuggling, and criminal associations. The individuals were brought to justice.

195 other individuals are actively being sought for the same charges, the report said.

Besides real estate, personal property of various kinds belonging to the persons concerned were also confiscated during the operations.

The BaFe is a unit within the Central Directorate of Judicial Police (DCPJ) which operates in close collaboration with the Central Unit of Financial Intelligence (UCREF) created by decree during the transition (2004-2006), whose primary mission is the fight against money laundering and illegal financial transactions in general, especially in the banking system.

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