A main suspect in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Mose has been arrested after 2 years

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FILE - Jovenel Moise talks to journalists during an interview in his office in Petion-Ville, Haiti, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016. Haiti police has announced Thursday, Cot. 19, 2023, the arrest of a former Haitian official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of President Moïse. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

Updated 8:58 PM CDT, October 19, 2023

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 was arrested Thursday in Haiti’s capital after being on the run for more than two years, police said.

Joseph Badio once worked for Haiti’s Ministry of Justice and at the government’s anti-corruption unit until he was fired for alleged ethics violations weeks before the assassination.

Badio was arrested in the neighborhood of Petion Vile in Port-au-Prince, National Police spokesman Garry Desrosiers said.
Moïse was shot 12 times at his private home in July 7, 2021, sending Haiti into a political crisis.

Several people had been arrested after Moïse assassination, including 11 men now in U.S. custody. Prosecutors in the U.S. have alleged that there was a broad plot among conspirators in both Haiti and Florida to hire mercenaries to remove Moïse and benefit from contracts from a successor administration.

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