The assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was part of a political project that began on May 12 in a meeting room in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to a newspaper publication. The Washington Post.
Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 63-year-old Haitian-American pastor and doctor, would be the one who would lead the project to “save Haiti”, which includes a supposed economic investment of 83 billion dollars that would reinvent the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, building roads , electrical networks, seaports and airports.
Also participating in that meeting were Parnell Duverger, 70, a retired professor who attended the Fort Lauderdale presentation and had written the redevelopment plan presented by Sanon; Walter Veintemilla, a Florida financier who invests in infrastructure projects; and Antonio “Tony” Intriago, the owner of a local security firm also in Florida, according to Duverger and another person familiar with the meeting.
The newspaper indicates that at the meeting it was agreed that Intriago’s Veintemilla, Worldwide Investment Development Group and CTU Security would recruit and assemble a private security force to protect Sanon until he became president of Haiti, according to the details of a draft agreement. Consulting unsigned obtained by The Post. Ultimately, Sanon would reimburse them for their services using the country’s assets, according to the draft contract that circulated on June 22.
A separate document obtained by The Post presents proposed loans totaling more than $ 860,000 to Sanon for the purchase of ammunition, equipment, transportation and accommodation for personnel, and lists the dates of the expenditures during May and June. Three-quarters of the $ 860,000 would be covered by Worldwide, the breakdown shows, and the rest by CTU.
The revelations of a grand plan to rebuild Haiti backed by Sanon and others, as well as the draft contract and cost list obtained by The Post, add a new financial dimension to the hectic investigation into a presidential assassination that has upset the fragile state. Caribbean. Haitian and Colombian authorities, along with the FBI and Interpol, are fighting to unravel a cast of suspects that they say includes a former Drug Enforcement Administration informant nicknamed “Whiskey,” an opposition politician, Colombian mercenaries. and Haitian-Americans from South Florida.
A statement issued by a Veintemilla attorney, Robert N. Nicholson, said that Sanon reached out to his client for infrastructure funding and “expressed his intention to help bring about a peaceful change in Haiti’s leadership to improve living conditions. of Haitians “.
The statement said that one of Veintemilla’s firms, Worldwide Capital Lending Group, “helped provide a loan to CTU” to support Sanon’s efforts, including providing private security for him and “other Haitian dignitaries due to ongoing violence in Haiti”.
However, there is no evidence in the contract obtained by The Post, or the people interviewed for this report, that there was a goal of killing President Moïse. The person familiar with the meeting and the contract, as well as Duverger, said meeting attendees expected mounting protests and that public pressure would eventually force the Haitian president to resign.
“At no time during a meeting or conversation with Mr. Sanon or with any of his representatives was there any mention, discussion or suggestion of an assassination plot against President Moïse or the intention to use force to achieve a change of leadership in Haiti. . “
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