Like Trying to Get Ethics from a Swiss Banker...

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The Haitian government is making frantic efforts to stop millions of pounds held in Swiss bank accounts being handed over this weekend to the former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. They claim that "Baby Doc" looted the money from Haiti when he fled to exile in France in 1986.

The money, 7.6m Swiss francs (£3.1m), has been frozen for the past five years as the Haitian government has argued for its release but it is due to be surrendered to Duvalier tomorrow. He is believed to have other hidden bank accounts elsewhere.

— Haiti Bids to Halt Return of Baby Doc's Millions

The title is a bit... prejudging, no?

I was reading a bit, this weekend, about the notion of odious debt and international law.