Four suspects were extradited to the United States for their involvement in the 2021 assassination of Haiti’s president.

Four suspects in the July 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise were extradited to the United States on Tuesday, January 31, US authorities said. Three Haitian-Americans and a Colombian national arrested in Haiti will appear before a federal judge in Miami on Wednesday to determine their charges, according to a Justice Department press release. Three men before them have already been extradited to the United States to face trial for the murder.

Jovenel Moise, 53, was shot by an armed commando in his private residence in Port-au-Prince on the night of July 6-7, 2021, without the intervention of his bodyguards. His death further fueled the chaos in this small, impoverished Caribbean country. Haitian police quickly arrested about forty suspects, including about twenty former Colombian soldiers, who they said had been recruited by the Florida-based security company CTU. After that, the investigation ran into the shortcomings of the local judicial system.

American justice, competent to try conspiracies on his soil, seized. After the first three suspects, he charged two Haitian-Americans, James Solage, 37, and Joseph Vincent, 57, as well as German Rivera, 44, a Colombian. “Conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States.” In a separate indictment, he is suing Christian Sanon, a 54-year-old man who also has dual Haitian-American citizenship and who was breastfeeding. “Political Ambitions” In Haiti, for that “Illegal export of goods from the United States of America”.

“Private Militia”

Specifically, American justice accuses James Solage and Christian Sanon of discussing regime change in Haiti during a meeting in April 2021 in Florida. At the end of their meeting, a list of weapons, including rifles, machine guns, grenades, etc. was shared.

A month later, Christian Sanon ordered equipment for him “Private Militia”, a force of about twenty Colombians, led by the German Rivera, was to ensure his safety in Haiti. In June 2021, he sent about twenty bulletproof vests to Haiti without following the formalities of American customs, for which he is now accused.

According to the press release, James Solage, Joseph Vincent, and German Rivera met on July 6, 2021, outside the president’s house, to distribute weapons, and the former announced that the mission’s objective was to kill Yovenel Moise. Three men face life in prison, while Christian Sanon faces 20 years in prison.