A small group of Colombian commandos-for-hire knew of the plot to assassinate the president of Haiti, Colombian President Ivan Duque said Thursday, while his top police official identified two of the alleged leaders.
Eighteen Colombians are among 23 people who have been apprehended in the dragnet that followed the July 7 murder of Haitian President Jovenel Moise. Several have said they were hired through a Doral, Florida-based company, CTU Security, led by Venezuelan emigre Antonio Intriago, who appears to have gone into hiding.
Breaking a relative silence on the events in Haiti, President Duque told La FM radio in Colombia that his administration is providing good leads in the investigation to the middle-of-the-night assassination inside Moise’s private residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince. His wife, first lady Martine Moise, was wounded and is currently recovering at a Miami hospital. No one else, including any of the president’s 23-member security detail that night, was killed or apparently shot.
