Four men have been arrested in Florida in connection with the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, officials say.
Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, 50; Antonio Intriago 59; Walter Veintemilla, 54; and Frederick Bergmann, 64, are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to kill Moïse and replace him as president, according to the U.S. attorney's office for Southern Florida.
With the arrests, a total of 11 people face charges in the Southern District of Florida in connection with the assassination.Ortiz and Intriago had financial stakes in a company called Counter Terrorist Unit Security , while Veintemilla was involved with Worldwide Capital Lending Group, federal prosecutors said. The men are accused of plotting to replace Moïse with Christian Emmanuel Sanon to gain lucrative contract deals with the government.
"By June 2021, the plan evolved as Ortiz, Intriago, Veintemilla and others apparently realized that Sanon had neither the constitutional qualifications nor the popular support of the Haitian people to become President," the federal prosecutor's office said Tuesday."They shifted their support from Sanon to a former Haitian Supreme Court judge."
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