Haitian President Jovenel Moise removed Monday two top government officials in a purge of people linked to a corruption scandal that sparked violent mass protests last week, Channel News Asia reported. The cabinet chief and the secretary general of the presidency were fired from their posts along with 15 government advisers, according to an official announcement. PetroCaribe, a Venezuelan-led oil alliance between the South American nation and Caribbean countries, was funneling money into Haitian government coffers. But the Haitian Senate’s report follows up parliamentary investigation into whether the PetroCaribe funds were then misspent by previous administrations. Haiti’s citizens remain outraged by the lack of arrests and the slow pace of the investigations.
— source occrp.org | 23 Oct 2018