Haiti Acts on Duvalier Funds
From Reuters
ZURICH, Switzerland —
Haiti has begun an attempt to recover any funds held in Switzerland by former President Jean-Claude Duvalier, Swiss government sources said today.
They said a Haitian delegation visited Bern last week to find out how to gain access to any Duvalier bank accounts in Switzerland. The Swiss government rejected a request for political asylum from Duvalier before he left Haiti in February and imposed a ban on his entering the country. The former dictator is in exile in southern France.
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