It is the U.S. Department of Justice announced on January 4, the indictment of Mario Palacios probably involved in the brutal assassination of former President Jovenel Moise, July 7, 2021, in his private residence in Pilgrim 5, in the town of Petion-ville, east of Port-au-Prince.
His appearance in court took place this Tuesday. The 43-year-old soldier is part of a cohort of twenty individuals who cowardly carried out the crime of Pèlerin 5 on July 7. He faces life imprisonment, said the Ministry of Justice.
Mario Palacios fled after the murder to Jamaica, where he was arrested and imprisoned in October 2021 following an Interpol wanted notice for “murder and complicity in murder”.
During his voluntary extradition to the United States of America on Monday night, he was intercepted in Panama.
The head of the Panamanian Migration Services, Samira Gozaine, confirmed the voluntary extradition of the mercenary who had the flight to Miami.
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According to the U.S. Federal Police, the accused was hired in June 2021 to carry out the arrest and kidnapping of Mr. Moise.
The plan went wrong and the mercenaries, led by a Haitian-American identified as “co-conspirator number one” and incarcerated in Haiti, were charged with executing the former head of state.
About forty people, among them 18 Colombians and Americans of Haitian origin, have been detained in the investigation of this assassination.
We recall that on January 3, the investigating judge Gary Orélien ordered the release of four police officers accused of involvement in the cruel murder of Jovenel Moise.