Haiti’s PM fires bank chief amid bank bribery scandal

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has fired the head of a commercial state bank after he had alleged that three members of the country’s governing interim government had demanded bribes from him to remain as head honcho of the National Bank of Credit (BNC).

Raoul Pascal Pierre Louis thought he was doing the right thing by formally writing to Conille recently telling him that the council members, Louis Gérald Gilles, Smith Augustin and Emmanuel Vertilaire had approached him to fork out $758, 000 or a million local currency if he wanted to keep his job. Instead, Conille fired him for reasons that are still unclear to most.