Pursuant to resumed judicial assistance proceedings, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) has frozen the assets of former Haitian president Jean-Claude Duvalier and his associates in Switzerland.
The Duvalier case dates to 1986 when the Haitian authorities submitted an international judicial assistance request to Switzerland and requested the former leader's assets to be frozen. The block was eventually implemented in 2002. Since then, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), in c more...