"Joseph Feliz Badio, who was an official of the Ministry of Justice and worked in the anti-corruption unit with the General Intelligence Service, tells Duberney Capador (former Colombian military officer) and German Rivera (ex-agent of the Colombian army) that what they have to do is to assassinate the president of Haiti," General Jorge Luis Vargas, director of the Colombian Police, said at a press conference.
Vargas said Badio had informed Capador and Rivera "apparently three days before" the operation that the order was not to arrest Moise, but to kill him.
On Thursday, Colombia's President Ivan Duque said former members of the Colombian military who participated in the killing will have to be tried by the Haitian judicial system.
Duque said his administration has been "collaborating" with Haitian authorities after a group of Colombian mercenaries took part in Moise's murder last week at his residence in Port-au-Prince.
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Former Haitian justice ministry official Joseph Felix Badio could have ordered the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise, Colombia’s police chief, General Jorge Vargas, said on Friday.
ReplyDeleteMoise was shot dead when assassins armed with assault rifles stormed his private residence in the hills above Port-au-Prince on July 7.
An investigation by Haitian and Colombian authorities, alongside Interpol, into Moise’s killing has revealed that Badio appeared to have given an order for the assassination three days before the attack, Vargas said in an audio message sent to news outlets by the police.
It was not immediately possible to reach Badio for comment. His whereabouts are unclear.
According to Vargas, the investigation found that Badio had ordered former Colombian soldiers Duberney Capador and German Rivera – who had initially been contracted to carry out security services – to kill Moise.
“Several days before, apparently three, Joseph Felix Badio, who was a former official of (Haiti’s) ministry of justice, who worked in the anti-corruption unit with the general intelligence service, told Capador and Rivera that they had to assassinate the president of Haiti,” Vargas said.