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08/12/2019 08:09:04

Saturday morning, at the Dominicano-Haitian border of Jimaní-Malpasse (West), the Dominican National Police (PND) arrested the Haitian diplomat Judith Exavier, Consul General of Haiti in Santiago, driving a white Jeep Lexus, registered G-353903.

Ms. Exavier's vehicle was the subject of a request from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which according to J-2 sources (intelligence service of the Dominican Ministry of Defense) would be registered at the name of José Bernabé Quintero a member of network the Caesar Emilio Peralta Adamez nicknamed the "Dominican Pablo Escobar", accused of transporting tons of narcotics and numerous crimes, who was arrested in Bogota this week and about to be extradited to the United States.

The Public Ministry, represented by the Attorney General of the province Province of Independencia Soni Adriano Rosario Jose proceeded to the seizure of the vehicle.

Judith Exavier, who was unable to provide legal paperwork for the vehicle she was in, was taken into custody and interrogated for several hours before being released with the promise to report to the office of the DEA, in the Dominican Republic to be interviewed again.

Whatever the outcome of this affair, the image of Haitian diplomacy is once again tarnished, after, among other things, the latest scandal of corruption, visas and arranged marriages in the Bahamas, involving diplomatic personnel and employees of the Embassy of Haiti... https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28537-haiti-flash-corruption-at-least-4-haitian-diplomats-sanctioned-in-the-bahamas.html

Learn more about Judith Exavier :
After two years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Haiti, as Chargée de Mission Judith Exavier was appointed head of the Consultat de Santiago to replace Jacques Pierre Matilus.

During the previous 10 years, Judith Exavier has had a diplomatic career, notably as a counselor at the Embassy of the Republic of Haiti in Japan, Deputy Chief of Mission, Minister-Counselor, Chargé d'Affaires ai; in South Korea and the Philippines, and non-resident Ambassador to Vietnam.

SL/ HaitiLibre