Moïse was killed in July 2021. The judge investigating the case writes in the indictments that Moïse’s widow Martine Moïse and former Prime Minister Claude Joseph are accused of complicity and conspiracy. The most serious charges in the indictments are directed at Haiti’s former national police chief, Léon Charles. Today he is Haiti’s permanent envoy to the Organization of American States (OAS). He is accused of murder, attempted murder, possession and illegal carrying of weapons, conspiracy against the country’s internal security, and conspiracy. Charles has not been available for comment to the AP news agency, while neither Joseph nor a spokesman for Martine Moïse’s defense has responded to inquiries about commenting on the case. Several others have also been charged. Altogether, it concerns indictments against almost 50 people, according to the judge’s 122-page report. A further twelve suspects have already been extradited to the US and charged with the murder. Three of them have already been sentenced. US prosecutors have described the murder as a plan hatched both in Haiti and in Florida. The plot allegedly involved providing assassins to abduct or kill Moïse, who was 53 years old when he was killed in his private residence near the capital Port-au-Prince on July 7, 2021.
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