Haitian president's assassination: Businessman gets life in prison over involvement in 2021 killing

Jovenel Moise, 53, was assassinated in July 2021 when intruders broke into his private residence in Port-au-Prince.

Friday 2 June 2023 21:49, UK



Former Haitian president Jovenel Moise pictured in 2019

A businessman has been sentenced to life in prison for helping Colombian mercenaries get weapons to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moise in 2021.

Haitian-Chilean defendant Rodolphe Jaar pleaded guilty in March this year to conspiring to commit murder or kidnapping outside of the US, and to providing material support that resulted in death.

Judge Jose E Martinez handed him the life sentence at a hearing in the federal court in Miami.

He was the first person to be convicted and sentenced in an alleged plot by conspirators in Haiti and Florida to obtain lucrative contracts under a successor to Mr Moise.

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