{"id":62887,"date":"2017-01-12T04:38:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/?p=62887"},"modified":"2017-01-12T04:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:38:12","slug":"canadian-embassy-in-haiti-investigating-1-7m-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/canadian-embassy-in-haiti-investigating-1-7m-fraud.html","title":{"rendered":"Canadian embassy in Haiti investigating $1.7M fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian government has fired 17 local recruits from its embassy in Haiti after uncovering a system of fraud that cost the diplomatic mission $1.7 million over\u00a012 years, Global Affairs Canada says.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of that staff, 12 people, worked for Global Affairs Canada. The other five worked for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Global Affairs told Radio-Canada, CBC&#8217;s French-language service, the investigation began in spring 2015 and uncovered &#8220;inadequate practices&#8221;\u00a0at the embassy in Port-au-Prince.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found the staffers inflated bills, diverted and stole materials and colluded with local suppliers\u00a0between 2004 and 2016.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Foreign affairs minister concerned about embassy safety<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Spending soars at Canadian embassies<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Global Affairs said the embassy has stopped dealing with all suppliers implicated in the fraud\u00a0and an investigation is underway to see if Canadian staff were involved in any way.<\/p>\n<p>No criminal charges have been laid so far.<\/p>\n<p>Global Affairs said the relief efforts related to Hurricane Matthew were not affected.<\/p>\n<p>The department is\u00a0also reviewing\u00a0practices at embassies in Algeria, Nigeria, Kenya, India and Russia to determine whether\u00a0similar activity has\u00a0taken place.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/canada-embassy-haiti-fraud-1.3931746?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian government has fired 17 local recruits from its embassy in Haiti after uncovering a system of fraud that cost the diplomatic mission $1.7 million over\u00a012 years, Global Affairs Canada says. The majority of that staff, 12 people, worked for Global Affairs Canada. The other five worked for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-62887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}