A corporation belonging to the Individual Respondent (“Respondent”) was awarded a contract to build a substation for medium voltage electrical lines in connection with the Rehabilitation of the Electricity Distribution System in Port-au Prince. The Office of Institutional Integrity (“OII”) submitted a Statement of Charges and Evidence against the Respondent, among others, alleging that the Respondent, acting as Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), committed a fraudulent practice by misrepresenting the corporation’s financial qualifications in order to mislead the government into believing that the corporation met the requirements to participate in the bidding process. OII’s specific accusation was that the Respondent engaged in a fraudulent practice in the corporation’s bid, by overstating its income in the submitted financial statements in order to comply with the income requirements stipulated in the bidding documents. Consequently, and in accordance with the Sanctions Procedures, the Sanctions Officer (“SO”) issued a Notice of Administrative Action (“Notice”) to the Respondent. During the administrative proceedings, the corporation’s acting CEO informed the SO of the death of the Respondent. 

In accordance with Section 9 of the Protocol for de Delivery of Notices of Administrative Action in Relation to the Inter-American Development Bank Group’s Sanctions Proceedings, the SO declared the Notice null and void with respect to the Respondent, and terminated the corresponding sanctions proceeding against the Respondent. The SO Determination was final.