Washington, July 28, 2026.- The American federal justice postponed to the beginning of February 2027 the conviction of four men convicted of having participated in the plot that led to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Federal judge Jacqueline Becerra decided to postpone the hearings in order to avoid them coincide with the trial of the last accused in this case.
The conviction of four men found guilty in the case of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse will finally take place only at the beginning of February 2027.
According to an order of federal judge Jacqueline Becerra, the sentencing hearings, originally scheduled for the end of October, were postponed in order to avoid them being held at the same time as the trial of the last accused in this case.
The four men were found guilty in May 2026, following a nearly nine-week trial in a federal court in Miami. They are prosecuted for their involvement in the plot that led to the assassination of the Haitian president, shot dead in his private residence on the night of July 6-7, 2021, in Pilgrim 5, Petion-Ville commune.
The convicted are Arcángel Pretel Ortiz and Antonio « Tony » Intriago, owners of Counter Terrorism Federal Academy and Counter Terrorism Unit Security (CTU), CTU employee James Solages, and Walter Veintermilla, accused of contributing to the financing of the operation.
The four men each face a sentence of up to life imprisonment.
No new date has yet been set for the trial of the last accused or for the sentencing hearings of the four persons already convicted.
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