The Miami Herald reports, Colombian president says commandos knew they were on mission to murder Haiti’s Moïse 07/15/2021:
Breaking a relative silence on the events in Haiti, President Duque told La FM radio in Colombia that his administration is providing good leads to the investigation to the assassination. ...In the Rising segment, Kim Ives refers to the suspicious being cast on a doctor and pastor, Christian Emmanuel Sanon, as the leader of the assassination plot are not credible. But somebody seems to be happy to throw him to the wolves, although even if he is being set up as a scapegoat, it doesn't mean he couldn't have been an active participant: Ashley Collman, The man suspected of masterminding the Haiti assassination told police he didn't know anything about the attack, report says, as his brother claims he was framed Business Insider 07/15/2021.
The president’s revelations came on the same morning that Colombian National Police Chief Gen. Jorge Luis Vargas Valencia held a news conference that was equally explosive. Highlights of his presentation were tweeted out from his Twitter account.
Three more Colombians are being sought in connection with the assassination, Vargas said, in addition to the three “neutralized,” or dead, and 18 captured. He did not reveal their names, but said the three had met with Christian Enmanuel Sanon, the Haitian doctor from South Florida who is in custody in Haiti and has been called one of the alleged intellectual authors of the killing.
Vargas also shed light on the leadership of the group that traveled to Haiti. He said a former Army captain by the name of Germán Alejandro Rivera García was wired $50,000 from the United States. He did not say by whom, although a Haitian authorities in a news conference late Wednesday identified both the Doral security company’s owner and a South Florida lender named Walter Vientemilla as persons of interest. Neither man returned phone calls Thursday afternoon. [my emphasis]
This New York Times report also expresses skepticism on the idea that Sanon could have been the ringleader (Anatoly Kurmanaev et al, Suspects in Haitian President's Killing Met to Plan a Future Without Him 07/15/2021):
Haitian officials contend that Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a doctor and pastor who divided his time between Florida and Haiti, conspired with the others to take the reins of the country once Mr. Moïse was killed. During a raid of Mr. Sanon's residence, they say, the police found six holsters, about 20 boxes of bullets and a D.E.A. cap - suggesting that it linked him to the killing because the team of hit men who struck Mr. Moïse's home posed as agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Mr. Sanon is now in custody.
Haitian officials are investigating whether the president's own protection force took part in the plot as well, and on Thursday they detained the head of palace security for Mr. Moïse. Colombian officials say the palace security chief made frequent stopovers in Colombia on his way to other countries in the months before the assassination. The Haitian authorities offered little explanation as to how Mr. Sanon - who did not hold elected office - planned to take over once the president was killed. It was also difficult t understand how he might have financed a team of Colombian mercenaries, some of whom received American military training when they were members of their nation's armed forces, to carry out such an ambitious assault, given that he filed in Florida for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in 2013.
But the interviews show that several of the key suspects met to discuss Haiti's future government once Mr. Moïse was no longer in power - with Mr. Sanon becoming the country's new prime minister. [my emphasis]
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