Ammunition seized from the Haitian gang 400 Mawozo came from the stocks of the Dominican army, and other rounds match ammunition diverted from the Dominican National Police, the United Nations Panel of Experts on Haiti says in its latest report to the Security Council.

Investigators examined 89 cartridges of 5.56 mm ammunition linked to the gang and seized in 2025. Twenty-five were stamped “ERD,” the marking of the Dominican Republic Army. Sixteen others carried markings consistent with police ammunition whose diversion the panel had already investigated. That is 41 of the 89 rounds.

Dominican authorities told the panel that the ERD ammunition was bought in 2022 from a Colombian manufacturer. The armed forces mark their rounds so that they can track stocks and detect theft.

The report also notes that in December 2025 a Dominican army officer and a Haitian national were arrested in San Juan de la Maguana while carrying 1,516 rounds on a motorcycle. The case was still before the courts when the report was written.

An earlier report by the same panel traced 5,000 rounds seized by Haitian police in Mirebalais in July 2024 to a batch of 500,000 delivered to the Dominican police in 2022. A Dominican inventory then found that 908,001 items, mostly ammunition, were missing from police depots, diverted by what the report called corrupt agents of the police and armed forces.

Haiti does not manufacture weapons or ammunition. UN reports have repeatedly found that most guns reach Haitian gangs from the United States, particularly Florida, while much of the ammunition crosses the land border.