Gangs in Haiti: Canada extends its list of sanctioned people

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Haiti's Foreign Minister Jean Victor Généus during a discussion on the situation in Haiti on the sidelines of the Francophonie Summit in Djerba, Tunisia, November 20 2022. AP - Sean Kilpatrick

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Canada continues its work against gangs in Haiti.

Ottawa extended this Monday, December 5, its list of personalities sanctioned for their support and financing of armed gangs.

After having targeted the political sphere, by pinning in particular former President Michel Martelly and two former Prime Ministers, it is now big names in the Haitian private sector who are targeted.

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Gilbert Bigio, Reynold Deeb and Sherif Abdallah: in Haiti, these three names are famous, because they are synonymous with very large fortunes.

That they appear today on the Canadian list of people sanctioned for their financial support of gangs, is an understatement to say that this will create a stir in the private sector of the country.

Because the decision entails the immediate freezing of the assets that these three businessmen could have in Canada and also prohibits any financial transaction with them.

Ottawa specifies that these measures are being taken because there is " 

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Fighting the gangs of Haiti by attacking their wallets is the strategy adopted by Canada and also, but to a lesser extent so far, by the United States.

But faced with this dynamic carried out from abroad and which has already singled out a former president, two former prime ministers and several parliamentarians, the justice system and the Haitian political class remain very silent.

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