Juan Diaz, age 51, of Miami, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of conspiring to make corrupt payments to foreign government officials in an effort to gain advantages for three Miami-area telecom vendors from Haiti's state-owned telecom company, Telecommunications D'Haiti.

Diaz was charged with violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and money laundering laws in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Antonio Perez, also age 51, of Miami, pleaded guilty April 27 to a charge of conspiring to making corrupt payments for a Miami-area telecom vendor. Perez was controller at a Miami telecom vendor from March 1998 to January 2002, and his company paid more than $674,000 in bribes to former Haitian officials, the DOJ said.

Court documents did not include the companies either man worked for, and a DOJ spokesman declined to name the companies.

The three Miami-area telecommunications companies executed a series of contracts with Telecommunications D'Haiti that allowed the companies' customers to place telephone calls to Haiti, the DOJ said. Diaz and Perez said they worked with the companies to make "side payments" through a shell company belonging to Diaz, to the former director of international relations and former director general of Telecommunications D'Haiti, the agency said.