15871: Nadal: Re: Mildred Aristide' sources of Cash money : Drug trafficking. (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Olivier Nadal <o_nadal@bellsouth.net>

Cocaine trafficking apparently becomes "legal activity" in South

Excerpt from recorded report by Les Cayes correspondent Rameau Rigobert;
broadcast in progress by Haitian Signal FM radio on 10 June

[Rigobert - recording, in progress] - within the framework of investigations
the police are carrying out about a shipment of cocaine that a boat
scattered over several points in the sea in the Department of the South last
week. According to a police source, the Office to Control Drug Trafficking,
BLTS, investigators had a hard time getting information and arresting the
suspects, because the judicial authorities in Les Cayes did not wish to
cooperate. [Passage omitted]

Since last week, cocaine trafficking seems to have become a legal activity
in the Department of the South because several nice cars with tinted
windscreens and windows and cars with official plates are moving around in
the region with the purpose of buying cocaine.

For the time being, journalists in Les Cayes cannot meet the public
prosecutor, lawyer Fredeck Lemy [phonetic]. By the way, continuing rumours
in the city say that the ministry will decide to transfer him to another
jurisdiction.

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