US sanctions ex-Haitian PM implicated in $60M oil scandal

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 PORT-AU-PRINCE— Former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Salvador Lamothe has been hit with sanctions by the U.S. State Department over his suspected involvement in misappropriating no less than $60 million from the Haitian authorities’s PetroCaribe program. He’s now banned from getting into america.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Friday cited Lamothe’s position in raiding PetroCaribe, an infrastructure funding and social welfare program that Venezuela had funded for sure nations that introduced its oil. The lacking funds led to a sequence of huge ‘the place’s the PetroCaribe cash’ protests and a lockdown of Haiti in 2018. 

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The U.S. sanctioned and has banned him from getting into the nation.

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I’m Juhakenson Blaise, a journalist primarily based within the metropolis of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I cowl the information that develops on this metropolis and offers with different topics associated to the expertise of Haitians for the Haitian Occasions newspaper. I’m additionally a lover of poetry.

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