The Latest: Colombia says 4 firms recruited Haiti suspects
The latest developments in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse:
BOGOTA, Colombia — The director of Colombia’s police, Gen. Jorge Luis Vargas Valencia, says that four companies had been involved in recruiting and gathering suspects implicated in the assassination of Haiti’s president, though he did not release the companies’ names, saying they were being verified.
He said Friday that the Colombian suspects — several of whom were earlier identified as military veterans — travelled to the Caribbean nation in two groups by way of the Dominican Republic.
Vargas said Duberney Capador Giraldo and Alejandro Rivera García travelled from Colombia to Panama on May 6 and then to Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital. He said they then went to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on May. 10.
A second group of 11 Colombians followed later. Police released a document indicating they had travelled on June 4 from Bogota to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic and two days later crossed into Haiti.
It was not yet clear who had sponsored the men's recruitment.
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BOGOTA, Colombia — The wife of a former Colombian soldier arrested in Haiti in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse says her husband was recruited by a security firm to travel to the Dominican Republic last month.
The woman told Colombia’s W Radio on Friday that her husband, Francisco Uribe, was hired for $2,700 a month by a company named CTU to travel to the Dominican Republic, where he was told he would be providing protection to some powerful families.
She says she last spoke to her husband Wednesday at 10 p.m. — almost 24 hours after the raid on the president’s home — and said he was on guard duty at a house where he and others were staying.
“The...