Wednesday July 6, 2022, the former Minister of Sports, Evans Lescouflair, after being arrested by INTERPOL in Panama on Saturday July 2 where he had taken refuge to escape Haitian justice, accused of indecent assault, sexual abuse and repeated rapes of a minor https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-37066-haiti-flash-former-sports-minister-e-lescouflair-accused-of-pedophilia-arrested-in-panama-by-interpol.html was deported to the Dominican Republic..

He was subsequently handed over by members of the INTERPOL Office in Santo Domingo at the Jímaní-Malpasse border post to a delegation of the Haiti Border Police (PoliFront).

For now, Lescouflair is placed in police custody at the Central Directorate of Judicial Police (DCPJ) pending legal action.

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