Overview

• ICE online records show Vorbe is being held at the Krome North Service Processing Center in Miami as of Tuesday.
• Authorities have not announced any charges or stated a reason for the detention, and an ICE spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.
• Initial reports of the detention came from Haitian media and were later corroborated by outlets citing ICE custody records.
• Vorbe leads SOGENER, a major Haitian power company long embroiled in contract disputes and corruption allegations with the Haitian government, which he has previously denied.
• The custody follows ICE’s July arrest in Florida of Haitian businessman Réginald Boulos and comes a day after the U.S. imposed entry bans on two former Haitian officials for significant corruption, according to the Associated Press.