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Haiti PM: My allegations of involvement in Moyes’ assassination are unfounded

For “conspiracy“With” political motives “speaks her prime minister Haiti, Ariel Henry, following the request of the Chief Prosecutor of Port-au-Prince to prosecute him for murder of the President of the country Jovenel Moiz.

Henry denounced in a statement “the conspiracy organized nationally and internationally over the telephone communications that took place on the night of the shameful assassination of the president.”

The chief prosecutor of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday asked the judge investigating Moyes’ murder to prosecute Henry over the phone calls he allegedly had with one of the key suspects.

According to the Athenian News Agency, this is about Joseph Felix Bandio, a former member of the anti-corruption unit, who was in the neighborhood where the private residence of Jovenel Moise is located when he spoke on the phone with the prime minister, at 4.03 and 4.20 on the night of the assassination.

Port-au-Prince Government Commissioner Ben-Claude also requested to ban Ariel Henry from leaving the country “Due to the seriousness of the events”.

President Moise was killed on the night of July 7th by armed commandos inside his home in the Haitian capital.

Hours later, Henry dismissed the prosecutor, citing “a serious administrative error”. On Wednesday, Henry also fired Justice Minister Rockefeller Bensan, giving control of the ministry to Home Secretary List Kittel. An indication of the tension in the government was the replacement of the secretary of the cabinet.

Henry explained last Thursday night that “it is difficult today to clarify the names of all those who have called me, to examine the nature of our conversation.”

Henry, who was appointed prime minister by Moyes less than 48 hours before his assassination, added that “conversations with indicted persons can in no way be used to incriminate anyone.”

“Political interests do not allow anyone or any group of people to make serious implications or even less to try to bring someone to justice without being interested in finding out if they really have any responsibility for the actions being investigated,” Henry said.

Forty-four people, including 18 Colombians and two Americans of Haitian descent, have already been arrested in connection with the murder at Moyes’ home without injuring any of his bodyguards.

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