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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Apr 22, 2015
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• Category : Haiti News
• Description : By REUTERSAPRIL 20, 2015
• Location : Port-au-Prince, Ouest, Haiti
• Website : http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/world/africa/us-expresses-concern-about-dismissal-of-haiti-kidnapping-case.html?_r=1

Overview

• PORT-AU-PRINCE — The Obama administration expressed concern on Monday over the speed of a court ruling in Haiti that dropped charges against a man accused in a kidnapping ring who had close ties to the family of President Michel Martelly.
  
  On Friday, the judge freed Woodly Ethéart, who has known Mr. Martelly since they both worked in the music business, and Renel Nelfort. Mr. Ethéart and Mr. Nelfort are suspected of being the leaders of the Galil Gang, and they were indicted in March on charges of masterminding a host of violent crimes, including murder, money laundering and more than a dozen kidnappings.
  
  Shortly after the indictments were announced, the minister of justice dismissed the prosecutor, saying his deputies had asked the judge to free the men because they did not think they could win a conviction.
  
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