US EditionUS sanctions former Haitian security head, gang leader for aiding gang coalition
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Dimitri Herard and Kempes Sanon for enabling the Viv Ansanm gang coalition responsible for over 5,600 deaths and widespread instability in Haiti.
- On Friday, the U.S. Treasury slapped sanctions on Dimitri Herard, former head of Haitian presidential security, and Kempes Sanon, head of the Bel Air gang.
- The agency said the two men supported Viv Ansanm gang coalition, designated a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year, and Treasury wrote Herard colluded after escaping prison in 2024.
- Investigators detail that Herard provided `training and firearms` to gang leaders and directly backs Viv Ansanm’s attacks on state institutions, while the Treasury accused Herard of facilitating violence in Haiti.
- The measures freeze their U.S. properties and block business transactions with the two men, and Bradley T. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, wrote this underscores their role in enabling Viv Ansanm’s violence.
- Gang violence has crippled Haiti since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, with gangs seizing control and the international community struggling to find solutions.
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UN, US slap sanctions on Haiti gang leader and ex-security chief
The United Nations and U.S. on Friday announced fresh sanctions on a former Haitian palace security chief and the leader of a downtown Port-au-Prince gang, as the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to renew its sanctions regime.
UPDATE 1-UN, US slap sanctions on Haiti gang leader and ex-security chief
The United Nations and U.S. on Friday announced fresh sanctions on a former Haitian palace security chief and the leader of a downtown Port-au-Prince gang, as the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to renew its sanctions regime. The sanctions target Bel Air gang leader Kempes Sanon and Dimitri Herard, who headed palace security at the time of President Jovenel Moise's 2021 assassination and escaped prison during a mass jailbreak last year.
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US sanctions former Haitian security head, gang leader for aiding gang coalition
The U.S. Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on the former head of Haitian presidential security when the leader of the Caribbean nation was assassinated and the head of a Haitian gang.
UN, US Sanction Haiti Gang Leader And Ex-Palace Security Chief
The UN sanctions plan aims to, via travel bans, asset freezes, and an arms embargo, reduce the funding and firearms reaching Haitian gangs. The post UN, US Sanction Haiti Gang Leader And Ex-Palace Security Chief appeared first on StratNews Global.
The U.S. government has included in its blacklist of sanctions two people linked to the armed gangs in Haiti, including a former police officer linked to the assassination in 2021 of the then president, Jovel Moise, who managed to escape from jail last year.
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