18 individuals charged in Haitian President’s murder flown to US

The United States authorities has taken custody of 18 defendants to look recently unsealed national charges related to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse connected July 7, 2021.

They were transported from Haiti to Miami successful a peculiar cognition that included members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, FBI Miami lawsuit agents, and Homeland Security Investigations agents.

The Department of Justice, successful a connection connected Monday, said the subject craft was deployed to grip imaginable equipped pack attacks from astir the Port-au-Prince airdrome successful the Haitian capital.

The 18 individuals are among the 30 defendants that a Southern District of Florida expansive assemblage indicted. The charges see fraud and a wealth laundering strategy that relied connected COVID-19 alleviation funds to concern their plot.

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jason Reding Quiñones, noted that the extradition marks the adjacent large signifier successful the pursuit of accountability for the execution of President Moïse.

“Our enactment did not extremity with the men who planned and carried retired this assassination.

“We volition travel the grounds to those who financed it, facilita...