One of those allegedly implicated in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, former police officer Gilbert Dragon, died this Wednesday in a Port-au-Prince hospital due to an undetermined disease, Haitian Police sources told Efe.
Dragon was transferred to the health center from the National Penitentiary, where he was in prison for his alleged participation in the assassination, which occurred on July 7 at Moise’s private residence.
The deceased was in charge of supplying the clothes with DEA identification to the mercenaries accused of the shooting murder of Moise, according to the Haitian National Human Rights Network at the time.
Dragon’s death occurs the same day that the Haitian National Police (PNH) informed that it will send three of its agents to Turkey, to transfer to the country the Haitian businessman Samir Handal, linked by the authorities to the assassination and who was arrested. in that European nation last Sunday.
After the murder of Moise, the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) issued an international arrest warrant against Handal, transferred to Interpol, for his alleged involvement in the murder of the president, the spokesman said at a press conference on Wednesday. of the Police, Garry Desrosiers.
Last October, another suspect was arrested, the Colombian Marco Antonio Palacios, who was arrested in Jamaica and was requested in extradition by the Haitian authorities.
According to the latest official data, 44 people were arrested in Haiti for their alleged involvement in the assassination, including 12 police officers.
Among those arrested in Haiti are 18 Colombians, most of them retired military personnel, and three Haitians who are nationalized from the United States.
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