A former Haitian senator who faces new U.S. charges in the assassination of the country’s president attended a key meeting with Colombian commandos on July 6, the day before the former soldiers allegedly assassinated Jovenel Moïse at his suburban home outside Port-au-Prince, according to a criminal complaint filed in Miami federal court.
The former senator, John Jöel Joseph, who had been detained in Jamaica before being brought to Miami Friday, acknowledged to FBI agents in a January interview that he had met with certain co-conspirators just before they “embarked on the mission to kill President Moïse,” according to an affidavit filed with the complaint.
Joseph also admitted in the interview that he helped obtain vehicles and tried to get firearms for the co-conspirators’ “operation” targeting Haiti’s leader, the affidavit says. Joseph’s goal was to become the prime minister under Moïse’s successor following the leader’s removal from office.
