President Moïse assassination: Haiti police chief connects Venezuelan to assassination plot

In a recent update in President Jovenel Moïse , Haiti’s police chief on Wednesday accused a Venezuelan businessman who holds a security company in Florida of traveling to Haiti various times as part of a plot to assassinate President Moïse.

Thursday, 15th July 2021

Haiti: In a recent update in President Jovenel Moïse , Haiti’s police chief on Wednesday accused a Venezuelan businessman who holds a security company in Florida of traveling to Haiti various times as part of a plot to assassinate President Moïse. Léon Charles, head of Haiti’s National Police, stated that Antonio Intriago of CTU Security signed a contract while in Haiti but gave no other details and offered no proof. Charles added, “The investigation is very advanced." Intriago could not be instantly reached for comment. Notably, Colombia’s national police chief has noted that CTU Security used its company credit card to purchase 19 plane tickets from Bogota to Santo Domingo for the Colombian suspects supposedly involved in the killing. During a press conference (PC) Wednesday evening, Charles pleaded with Haitians to help officials track down suspects who remain on the run, also a former senator he described as a key suspect and is accused of giving weapons utilised in the July 7 attack. Former Sen. John Joël Joseph, a Haitian politician & opponent of the Tet Kale party that Moïse belonged to, is one of 5 fugitives whom police say are armed and dangerous. “We seem for these assassins, and wherever they go, we need to capture them, arrest them & bring them to justice,” Charles said. In a video uploaded last year on social platform YouTube, the former senator compared Moïse to the COVID-19, saying Haitians have died from hunger or been killed amid a spike in violence under his administration. “Insecurity has infected each single Haitian,” Joseph said. The police chief also stated the arrest of Gilbert Dragon, who led a rebel group recognised as the National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation & Reconstruction of Haiti. The group seized power in parts of Haiti following the 2004 coup that led to the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Authorities noted that they found several weapons at his house, including a saber, two grenades and an AR-15. Additionally, officers arrested a Haitian man identified as Reynaldo Corvington, who is accused of giving the suspects with housing & giving them sirens to use on top of their cars with an assist from another suspect, James Solages, a Haitian American who was arrested in few days. Corvington holds a private security company called Corvington Courier & Security Service, which he set up in 1982, as per to its website, which provides tips on how to survive a kidnapping. Police noted that they found several weapons at his house, including nine pistols and an AR-15. Another of the fugitives recognised by the police is Joseph Felix Badio. Charles told Badio rented a house near Moise’s home to assist the suspects in understanding the layout of the area.