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The leader of one of the most no­to­ri­ous gangs in Haiti, Jim­my Chérizier, says he is pre­pared to co­op­er­ate with the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tion (FBI) even af­ter Amer­i­can law of­fi­cials de­scribed him as a for­eign ter­ror­ist in May this year.

The US De­part­ment of Jus­tice al­so claimed in an in­dict­ment that Chérizier, alias “Bar­be­cue” and a US cit­i­zen, Bazile Richard­son, 48, so­licit­ed funds from the Hait­ian di­as­po­ra com­mu­ni­ty in the US to help pay gang mem­bers and buy firearms in vi­o­la­tion of US sanc­tions.

The US is of­fer­ing five mil­lion US dol­lars for in­for­ma­tion lead­ing to the ar­rest of Cher­izier, a for­mer po­lice of­fi­cer, whose group has been ac­cused of mul­ti­ple mur­ders, kid­nap­pings and at­tacks.