New revelations on the assassination of Jovenel Moïse | International investigation adds data on command that killed Haitian president

Colombian police revealed on Thursday that one of the detainees, ex-Colombian army agent Germán Rivera received money from the United States organize the travel of people who have entered the residence and they killed President Jovenel Moïse July 7. So far, Haitian police have arrested 23 people for the assassination, including 18 Colombians and five Americans of Haitian descent, while six others have arrest warrants.

“In the analysis and information received, there is an approximate amount of $ 50,000 that Germán Rivera received from the United States”the director of the Colombian police, the general Jorge Luis Vargas placeholder image, who said his office is still investigating the use of the money. Vargas added that the Haitian authorities “ask him to identify three other people who would have been part of the group of Colombians who participated in this homicide”.

Vargas also confirmed that Rivera, along with former military officer Duberney Capador, killed by police in Port-au-Prince “were the people who, according to current information in Haiti, planned and organized the alleged operation of arrest to reach the house. Of the president”.

Dating in Dominican Republic

In Haiti, police chief Léon Charles recently claimed that the murder of Moïse was conceived from the Dominican Republic. A photograph where we see the former senator Joel jean joseph, one of the suspects currently on the run from justice, participates in a meeting in the border country. “They were meeting at a hotel in Santo Domingo. Around the table are the brains, a technical recruiting group and a fundraising group,” Charles told reporters.

“Some people in the photo have already been arrested. This is the case of the doctor Christian Emmanuel Sanon, Jacques Solages. The latter had coordinated with the Venezuelan security company CAT Safety, based in Miami, ”added the Haitian police chief. The picture also shows Antonio Emmanuel Intriago Valera, owner of CTU, as well as owner of the company Worldwide Capital Lending Group, Walter Veintemilla, a company under investigation because it “allegedly raised funds to finance” the assassination, Charles said.

“There was a group of four (mercenaries) who were already in the country. The others entered on June 6. They went through the Dominican Republic. We traced the credit card that was used to buy the tickets,” did he declare. “They are former special forces soldiers from Colombia. They are experts, criminals. It’s a well-planned operation, ”said the Haitian police chief.

Colombian police have identified 19 plane tickets purchased with a credit card linked to the CTU company, Vargas also confirmed that the owner of the company, Intriago Valera, is of Venezuelan nationality.

Three new fugitives

In addition, the Haitian police have identified three new suspects in the murder of Moïse, the three men are among the five fugitives identified by the Caribbean authorities. As reported by the American newspaper The Washington Post, one of them is Jean Joël Joseph, Haitian politician opposed to the party of Moses. Last year, Joseph posted a video on YouTube in which he compared the president to the coronavirus. “Insecurity has infected all Haitians,” he said.

The second suspect is Joseph Feliz Badio, a former official of the Haitian Ministry of Justice What joins the anti-corruption unit in March 2013 and he was dismissed from his post in May of the same year for “serious violations” of ethical standards. “This heinous act is an affront to our democracy,” the unit said in a statement on Tuesday. “Authors, co-authors and accomplices must be persecuted, searched for and punished with the utmost rigor.”

The third person appointed by the Haitian authorities is Rodolphe Jaar, a Haitian citizen who in 2013, he was indicted in a federal court in South Florida with conspiracy to bring cocaine into the United States from Colombia and Venezuela via Haiti. Jaar, known as Whiskey, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nearly four years in prison, court records show. According to the American morning newspaper, At the sentencing hearing in 2015, Jaar’s attorney told the court that his client was a confidential source for the US government. for several years before being charged. In addition, Jaar has agreed to cooperate with federal authorities.

Training in the USA

From the Pentagon, they reveal information about the connection of the United States with the command which carried out the assassination in Haiti. “A review of our training databases indicates that a small number of Colombians detained as part of this investigation had participated in US military training and education programs in the past, while serving in as active members of the Colombian military forces. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Ken Hoffman said in a statement to The Washington Post. Hoffman, however, did not confirm how many men received the training or what it consisted of.