a991: Pharval Laboratories' CEO Ready to Help in the Investigation about Jean L. Dominique's murder (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Robert Benodin <r.benodin@worldnet.att.net>

Pharval Laboratories' CEO Ready to Help in the Investigation about Jean L.
Dominique's murder

February 28, 2002

Rudolph Boulos, Chief Executive Officer of Pharval Laboratories, says that
he is ready to cooperate with justice in the investigation about the
assassination of Jean Léopold Dominique. Mr. Boulos was summoned on Tuesday
February 26, 2002 by Josua Agnant, recently appointed to conduct the
investigation. He was represented by his attorney who indicated that he is
receiving medical care abroad.

During a statement on Radio Métropole, the head of Pharval Laboratories said
that he is available to justice and denied that he had anything to do with
the April 3, 2000 assassination of the Radio Haiti Inter Director. Mr.
Boulos declared, however, that he was surprised by that summons since he had
been outside the country long before Jean L. Dominique’s murder, and he
reminded that Judge Claudy Gassant, who had been on the case, did not find
necessary to question him. The CEO of Pharval Laboratories is now in
Washington, where he has been receiving medical care for two (2) years, for
problems caused by diabetes.

Jean L. Dominique had been very critical of Pharval Laboratories, following
the contamination of "Afébril and Valodon" syrups with diethyl glycol, which
had caused the death of sixty (60) children. Pharval Laboratories had
reached a compensation agreement with the parents of the victims and
immediately filed a lawsuit with them against VOS, the Netherlands company
who had distributed the contaminated product. Rudolph Boulos added that he
deplores the lack of support of the Haitian government concerning this
lawsuit.