REGIONAL – Haitian police question presidential guards as probe continues into Moise’s assassination

SOURCE – CMC-  Judicial police have questioned at last 21 presidential guards as Haitian authorities continue their investigations into the assassination of President Jovenel Moise one week ago at his private residence.

The police said that the 21 presidential guards were present on the night Moise was killed and his wife, seriously injured, when the armed gunmen, alleged to be former Colombian army officers, carried out the attack.

In addition, the authorities have seized the mobile phones of the guards.

The authorities have also prevented the owner of a private security firm from leaving the country and has issued wanted notices for three other men whom they say are “armed and dangerous”.

On Tuesday, the National Police of Haiti (PNH) issued three wanted notices for men who they said are accused of “murder, attempted murder, armed robbery”.

These include former legislator John Joel Joseph and Rodolphe Jaar, a businessman and manager of several companies.

Jaar uses the alias Whiskey and in 2013 was indicted in federal court in South Florida on charges of conspiring to smuggle cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela through Haiti to the US.

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