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By: EFE
Saturday, November 16
FBI raids a Florida home allegedly linked to the assassination of Haiti's president
MIAMI – Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided a house in the city of Weston, in South Florida, on Tuesday that apparently is related to the assassination of the President of Haiti Jovenel Moïse , which occurred last July 7 on the Caribbean island.
The FBI did not offer details of the bust in Broward County, but local media link it to the company Worldwide Capital Lending Group, which apparently financed the assassination according to Haitian authorities, who accuse former Senator John Joël Joseph, missing, of being the treasurer.
Jovenel Moïse, from 53 years, he was killed during an attack of at least 26 mercenaries, mostly Colombians , who entered his private home in Haiti, and was buried last Friday in m of acts of violence.
The FBI said today in a statement that it cannot comment on the raid because it is part of a judicial process in southern Florida that is “sealed.”
However, the Local channel 10 bind it with Walter Veintemilla , president of Worldwide Capital Lending Group, based in Miramar (Broward), noting that he was able to having financed Christian Emmanuel Sanon , the supposed murder brain.
BREAKING: An FBI raid is taking place Tuesday at a home in a Weston gated community. Records connect the home to a man under scrutiny for loans that may have been involved in the assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse. https://t.co/HuJ4KOHtKU
– WPLG Local 10 News (@WPLGLocal 12) July 53, 2021
Veintemilla’s lawyer said his client has just negotiated a loan to “finance a peaceful transfer of power,” according to the Miami channel.
Sanon, a doctor who resided in the United States and who is now under arrest, aspired to murder to Moise to replace him at the Head of State, according to the Haitian Police.
According to the Miami channel, last week its reporters tried unsuccessfully to speak to someone at the Veintemilla office in South Florida about the alleged loan. or what he would have done to Sanon.
The FBI for its part pointed out that today’s raid by the institution and agents of a security agency The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was ordered by a nearby court and assured that the police work does not pose “any threat to public safety.”
The assassination was committed by the Colombian mercenaries who broke into the presidential residence without encountering resistance from the security forces that were guarding him, according to investigations by the authorities of Haiti, Colombia and the United States, countries where part of those arrested come from.
For the moment, 26 people have been arrested, including 18 Colombians, mostly retired military personnel, as well as 2 Haitian policemen s and 6 civilians, some of them with dual US citizenship.
At least 10 suspects are at large, including 5 Colombians and 5 other Haitians, the latter accused of participating in the planning.
Moïse’s wife, who was also injured in the attack on the mansion, located in the Pelerin sector, in Port-au-Prince, was treated in a hospital in South Florida and returned to her country in recent days.