Haiti's anti-corruption unit alleged three transitional-council members demanded a 100 million-gourde payment from a state bank chief and received pre-approved credit cards

A report dated October 2, 2024 by Haiti's Unité de Lutte Contre la Corruption (ULCC), as summarized by Rezo Nòdwès, alleges that three members of the Conseil Présidentiel de Transition (CPT) - Smith Augustin, Emmanuel Vertilaire and Louis Gérald Gilles - demanded 100 million gourdes from Banque Nationale de Crédit (BNC) board chair Raoul Pascal Pierre-Louis in exchange for keeping him in his post. The ULCC also said BNC issued the three men credit cards with 1,800,000-gourde (about $20,000) limits, in May 2024, on Pierre-Louis's direct instruction rather than the board's, which it called an abuse of power, and flagged suspicious transactions between May 27 and July 11, 2024.