Le Nouvelliste obtained access to a 39-page UCREF document transmitted to the prosecutor’s office revealing troubling elements in the case of two former mayors implicated in money laundering and illicit enrichment: Jude Édouard Pierre, former mayor of Carrefour, and Jean Hislain Frédéric, former mayor of Cité Soleil. Contrary to what had previously been written in Le Nouvelliste, they are not charged with financing terrorism.

According to a preliminary report by the Central Financial Intelligence Unit (UCREF), these two former officials were allegedly involved in an opaque financial scheme surrounding a bank account opened in the name of the Association of Mayors of the West (AMOH). This entity, however, had no legal existence and would have served as a platform for unusually large financial movements.