Was Haiti's President Mose Killed For Valuable State Contracts?

/23 FEB 2023 BY HENRY SHULDINER

US prosecutors leveled new charges against alleged assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, raising questions about whether the murderers were seeking to replicate previous patterns of corruption by installing a puppet leader to funnel them state contracts.

Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, Antonio Intriago, Walter Veintemilla, and Frederick Bergmann were arrested on suspicion of their involvement in the July 2021 assassination of Moïse, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported in a February 14 press release. Their arrests mean 11 people now face charges in the US in connection with the murder.

Pretel Ortiz and Intriago are principals of Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy and Counter Terrorist Unit Security (CTU), a private security company in Miami. Veintemilla is a principal at Worldwide Capital Lending Group, a financing company in Florida.

The men intended to oust Moïse and replace him with Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a dual Haitian-American citizen with political aspirations in Haiti, prosecutors said. The plotters allegedly expected CTU to receive profitable contracts for infrastructure projects, security forces, and military equipment from Sanon in return. Sanon, also facing charges, was transferred in January from Haiti to US custody.

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