[1][2][3] Bigio's name appeared in the 2021 Pandora Papers leak of secret offshore company documents by the ICIJ.
[4] Other leaked documents showed Bigio moving wealth to Miami and Switzerland through offshore companies in different tax havens.
[7] On December 2, 2022 the Government of Canada imposed sanctions against Bigio, along with two other Haitian businessmen; Reynold Deeb and Sherif Abdallah.
The Canadian sanctions against Bigio were intended to stop the flow of illicit funds and weapons to armed criminal gangs in Haiti.
[9][10] Specifically Bigio is accused of supporting "illegal activities of armed criminal gangs, including through money laundering and other acts of corruption" according to a statement from the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs.