SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Authorities within the Dominican Republic informed The Related Press on Monday that they’ve detained a key suspect within the killing of Haiti’s president with assist from the USA authorities.
An official not allowed to talk publicly in regards to the case stated Rodolphe Jaar was being dealt with as a US prisoner and was arrested below instruction by US authorities.
The official stated Jaar was arrested Friday when he tried to enter the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
Jaar has not been formally charged.
It wasn’t instantly clear if he had an lawyer or can be extradited to a different nation.
US officers declined to remark, saying the investigation is constant.
Haitian authorities couldn’t be reached for remark.
The Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs stated it was ready for authorisation to talk on the case.
Jaar’s arrest got here simply days after Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, who is without doubt one of the major suspects within the July 7 slaying of President Jovenel Moïse, was extradited to the USA to face US expenses within the case.
Palacios, a 43-year-old former Colombian soldier, is charged with conspiracy to commit homicide or kidnapping exterior the USA and with offering materials help leading to dying, figuring out or intending that such materials help can be used to organize for or perform the conspiracy to kill or kidnap.
He was detained in Jamaica in October.
Jaar is one in all greater than 40 suspects held within the case.
He was born in Haiti and has a school diploma in enterprise administration, in line with court docket data. He’s not a U.S. citizen.
Jaar was indicted in 2013 in federal court docket in South Florida on expenses of conspiring to smuggle cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela by Haiti to the US.
He pleaded responsible and was sentenced to almost 4 years in jail, in line with court docket data.
At Jaar’s 2015 sentencing listening to, his lawyer informed the court docket that Jaar had been a confidential supply for the US authorities for a number of years earlier than his indictment.
Jaar additionally agreed to cooperate with federal authorities and requested for a lighter sentence, saying he had a spouse, one-year-old baby and aged dad and mom.
On Saturday, Claude Joseph, who briefly served as Haiti’s interim prime minister following the president’s assassination, tweeted that extra arrests had been pending.
He accused Haitian authorities of not investigating the case in an try and thwart justice however praised the worldwide group.
“The worldwide cooperation now we have all the time been asking for is turning into extra energetic daily. The campaign is not going to cease,” he wrote.
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