Federal agents arrested two U.S. citizens and two legal permanent residents for their alleged roles in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, with charges including conspiring to kill or kidnap a person outside the U.S., among others.
Federal agents on Tuesday arrested two U.S. citizens and two legal permanent residents in Florida for their alleged roles in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Prosecutors charged the two legal U.S. residents — Antonio Intriago, 59, a Venezuelan, and Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, 50, a Colombian — with conspiring to kill or kidnap a person outside the United States, among other charges. The two men are accused of coming up with a plan through their South Florida-based company, CTU Security, to oust Moïse and replace him with an aspiring Haitian politician, Christian Sanon, who would award them “lucrative contracts” upon taking power.A U.S.
More than 19 months after the July 2021 slaying of Moïse thrust Haiti into political chaos and gang violence, U.S. prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida have now charged 11 people in connection with the assassination.Markenzy Lapointe, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said prosecutors have reached “a critical mass in terms of the people responsible for this.” But the investigation continues, he said in a news conference, and further charges could still be filed.
In April 2021, Lapointe said, Ortiz and Intriago met in South Florida to agree to a plan to oust Moïse and replace him with Sanon. Once in power, he said, Sanon would award contracts to CTU Security for infrastructure projects in Haiti, as well as the provision of security forces and military-style equipment for a Sanon government.
Soon after, prosecutors said, the plan changed. After a failed effort to move Moïse out of Haiti by plane, co-conspirators began plotting to assassinate the then-president. On July 6 of that year, they allegedly met at a house near Moïse’s home, distributed firearms and announced “unambiguously that the mission was to kill President Moïse,” Lapointe said.
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