{"id":223979,"date":"2023-06-06T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=223979"},"modified":"2023-06-06T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T08:00:54","slug":"haitian-chilean-national-gets-life-sentence-for-president-moises-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=223979","title":{"rendered":"Haitian-Chilean national gets life sentence for President Mo\u00efse&#8217;s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/94591\/0x0\/rodol.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/94591\/760x480\/rodol.jpg\" alt=\"Jaar pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MIAMI (Florida, US), June 6 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) &#8212; Haitian-Chilean businessman Rodolphe Jaar was sentenced to life in prison by a Miami court for his role in the July 7, 2021, murder of President Jovenel Mo\u00efse in Port au Prince when a group of armed men &#8211; mostly Colombian mercenaries &#8211; stormed his home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaar pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside of the US, as well as to providing material support resulting in death. Prosecutors had said that Jaar was \u201cresponsible for providing weapons to \u2026 co-conspirators to facilitate carrying out the operation\u201d that resulted in Mo\u00efse\u2019s assassination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors for the US justice department, as well as officials in Haiti, have been pursuing accountability in Mo\u00efse\u2019s murder. Dozens of people have been detained in connection to the assassination in Haiti, while the US has arrested and charged 11 suspects for their alleged roles in the planned \u201ccoup d\u2019etat\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe has been banned from entering the United States for his \u201cinvolvement in significant corruption,\u201d Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLamothe misappropriated at least US$ 60m from the Haitian government\u2019s PetroCaribe infrastructure investment and social welfare fund for private gain,\u201d Blinken argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThrough this corrupt act and his direct involvement in the management of the fund, he exploited his role as a public official and contributed to the current instability in Haiti,\u201d he added. &#8212; NNN-MERCOPRESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (Florida, US), June 6 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) &#8212; Haitian-Chilean businessman Rodolphe Jaar was sentenced to life in prison by a Miami court for his role in the July 7, 2021, murder of President Jovenel Mo\u00efse in Port au Prince when a group of armed men &#8211; mostly Colombian mercenaries &#8211; stormed his home. Jaar pleaded guilty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223979"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223981,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223979\/revisions\/223981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}