Venezuelan-American Antonio Intriago is accused of “conspiring to provide resources to kill or kidnap a person outside the United States.” With the arrest of these people, the number of detainees in the United States for the assassination of the former president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, rises to 11
US federal agents arrested this Tuesday, February 14, four more suspects, including the owner of a Miami security company, for the murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, committed on July 7, 2021, according to the Southern District Attorney’s Office. from the state of Florida.
The Venezuelan-American Antonio Intriago, 59 years old and owner of the US security company CTU Security, was arrested and accused, among other charges, of “conspiring to provide resources to kill or kidnap a person outside the United States,” he said in press conference the prosecutor Markenzy Lapointe.
Also arrested and charged with the same charge was Arcángel Pretel Ortiz, 50, of Colombian origin and legal US resident, and an associate of Intriago.
Intriago and Pretel were part of the group that prosecutor Lapointe called the “planners” of the plot to assassinate the Haitian president.
The other two detainees are the Ecuadorian-American businessman Walter Veintermilla, 54, and the American Frederick Joseph Bergmann Jr, 64, a resident of Tampa, accused of allegedly financing the operation and smuggling merchandise, respectively.
Veintermilla and Bergmann would form the second group involved in the assassination, that of the “financiers”, in the words of Lapointe.
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The prosecutor specified that with these four arrests the number of people in US custody with “criminal charges for their role in the murder” of Moïse rises to 11.
The rest of the detainees made up the third group, that of the “operators”, that is, the group of ex-soldiers and others hired to carry out the murder of Moïse in Haiti.
Among the 11 suspects now in US custody are key men like James Solages, 37, and Joseph Vincent, 57, two Haitian-Americans who were among the first arrested after Moïse was shot 12 times in his home when he was killed.
Other suspects under arrest in the US are Christian Emmanuel Sanon, 64, a Haitian doctor, pastor and “aspiring political candidate” in his country, who may have been deceived by the real masterminds of the murder, according to local media.
The Colombian Germán Alejandro Rivera García, 44, is another of the detainees.
According to the US Attorney’s Office, with the exception of Rivera, Solages, Vincent and Sanon lived in South Florida, where the largest community of Haitians in the US is based, and in April 2021 they met to discuss how to promote a change in the Presidency of the Caribbean nation.
According to court documents, from at least February 2021 to July of that year, South Florida “served as a central location for planning and financing the plot to overthrow President Moïse and replace him with someone who would serve the political objectives and financial interests of the conspirators.”
With information from EFE
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