Colombian mercenaries were accompanying police executing an arrest warrant for the Haitian president but found him dead, says the Miami-based security consultant who hired them
A Miami-based security contractor who hired Colombian mercenaries accused oflast month said he was working with a former Haitian Supreme Court judge to help arrest Mr. Moïse and not assassinate him.
Antonio Intriago, owner of a South Florida-based firm called CTU Security, said the mercenaries went to the president’s private villa to accompany Haitian policefor the president, according to a statement released Wednesday by three lawyers representing Mr. Intriago. They said the president was dead when the Colombians arrived, echoing testimony from some of the soldiers.
“It is our belief that the president’s own bodyguards betrayed him,” the lawyers wrote in a statement. It didn’t elaborate on why the bodyguards may have betrayed him. The lawyers’ statement was accompanied by nearly 40 pages of private correspondence, contracts, a “Memorandum of Understanding” to replace Mr. Moïse with an obscure preacher, and an arrest warrant for the president. Together, the documents could shed more light on what happened in the early hours of July 7, when Haiti’s president was gunned down in the last few months of his term.
More than 40 people including members of the slain president’s security detail, Haitian politicians, a convicted drug dealer turned Drug Enforcement Administration informant, a second longtime DEA informant and Miami-area businessmen have been
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