A former senior executive at Haiti's state-run telecommunications company was sentenced Monday to nine years in federal prison for money laundering offenses tied to nearly $500,000 in bribes he accepted from U.S. businesses.
MIAMI (Reuters) - A former senior telecommunications official in Haiti was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for accepting about $500,000 in bribes from two U.S. companies that secured lucrative long-distance phone contracts in the Caribbean nation. A jury unanimously found Jean Rene Duperval guilty in March in a case based on 2001-2005 dealings that involved several former officials ...