Following allegations of FIFA Mobile Coins sexual abuse by Jean-Bart were published by the Guardian in April, Fifa's ethics committee conducted a detailed investigation lasting nearly six months that included hiring an independent IT consultancy company to use Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques to confirm some of the alleged victims' claims using cell phone data. According to the conclusion of the adjudicatory room, that allowed investigators to corroborate several occasions where"young female players visited with the [hotel], one of the alleged locations where the sexual abuse apparently occurred".
In the final report by the investigatory chamber, the panel heard statements from two alleged victims of Jean-Bart, among whom detailed her experiences after being selected to play for Haiti Under-17s. "President Yves Jean-Bart called me on the telephone to ask me to come and watch him," she explained. "When he came he gave me a pack of panties. I said'thank you' and when it was time to leave offered me to stay together in his room. He advised me to stay with him and pulled me towards him. And again in the centre, it was like I exist in the opinion of everyone."
Another alleged victim described when she needed to sit alongside Jean-Bart in the rear of a vehicle. "And I pushed away him to leave me alone. From this day on, every time he sees me on the court he never stops telling me I will never advance to the centre and he will never lift a finger into my favour to help me in anything."
The Fifpro report alleged that there was"sufficient evidence" to suggest the center"was being used as enticement for minor soccer players coming from poor backgrounds that were dressed and threatened into sexual abuse". Fifa's three-person panel was of the view that the allegations of sexual abuse"appear to be of a more cooperate/cartel organisation". Jean-Bart has consistently protested his innocence and final month reiterated at a Daily Mail interview his strategy to take his case to the court of arbitration for sport. He argued in his closing oral statement to the board that"in Haiti there's no'culture of rape' or of sexual abuse".
"In short, the panel considers that the last report ready by the investigatory room relies on solid evidence, gathered by distinct sources... also as reputed media outlets [such] as the Guardian and the New York Times. In the view of this panel, after analyzing such evidence, as well as the position expressed by Mr Jean-Bart, it is highly implausible, and even hopeless, such a varied group of entities and individuals, from all over the world, might be involved, let alone design, an extremely complex and detailed storyline, by giving extensive, congruent and consistent testimony, at different levels and cheap FUT Coins times throughout the investigation performed by the Fifa ethics committee".
