Widow of assasinated Haitian President charged in connection with his murder
The widow of Haiti’s former President has been charged in connection with his assassination.
Jovenel Moïse, the Haitian president, was fatally shot at his home in the hills of Port-au-Prince in July 2021, and his wife, Martine Moïse, was also injured.
A Haitian judge investigating the assassination has charged Martine Moïse, along with the former Prime Minister Claude Joseph, with complicity and criminal association.
The ex-chief of police, Léon Charles, has also been indicted and charged with murder, attempted murder, and illegal possession and carrying of weapons.
According to the 122-page document from Judge Walther Wesser Voltaire, made public by AyiboPost, the president’s widow allegedly conspired with the former Prime Minister to kill the president so she could replace him.
The leaked document to local media states that a total of nearly 50 people were indicted.
In June 2023, a Haitian businessman was sentenced to life in prison for assisting Colombian mercenaries in the assassination of the former Haitian President.
Rodolphe Jaar, a Haitian-Chilean businessman aged 51, was sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge in Miami.
Judge Jose E. Martinez handed down the sentence to Jaar for his role in facilitating Colombian mercenaries in obtaining weapons to assassinate the former Haitian president at his home.
Jaar was the first person to be convicted and sentenced in an alleged plot by conspirators in Haiti and Florida to gain lucrative contracts under the new administration once Moïse was killed.
Moïse had been the president since 2017 and was shot multiple times, dying at the scene at the age of 53.
Since the assassination of the former president, economic, social, and political stability in Haiti has rapidly deteriorated.
Moïse had previously claimed he was the victim of an assassination plot that had been foiled by the police.
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