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Thursday, July 19, 2012
A former executive at Haiti's formerly state-owned telecommunications company Patrick Joseph was jailed for a year for accepting bribes from two United States companies awarded long-distance phone contracts in Haiti.
The sentencing came four months after Joseph?s father, Venel Joseph, a former president of Haiti's central bank under Aristide, was shot and killed in Port-au-Prince, following a media report that his son was assisting U.S. officials.
The case centres on a multibillion-dollar bribery and money-laundering scheme involving two Florida-based telecommunications companies.
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