PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haitian police have arrested a former justice ministry official suspected of ordering the assassination of President Jovenel Moise.
Joseph Felix Badio was caught as he was driving out of a supermarket car park in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Moise was murdered in his bedroom by Colombian mercenaries in 2021. Most have since been arrested or killed.
His death threw Haiti into a prolonged political crisis and led to unprecedented levels of lawlessness.
Within months, criminal gangs extended their control over the capital, including its infrastructure and main fuel port.
Badio is accused of ordering hitmen to carry out the attack. He is charged with murder, attempted murder and armed robbery.
Local media said Badio had been fired from his post as an anti-corruption official in the justice ministry a few months before the assassination, after he was allegedly bribed to release a prisoner.
Some of the hitmen arrested hours after the killing alleged that Mr Badio, 60, had given them their orders. (BBC)
