By: Staff Writer
August 6, 2021
The law firm on behalf of a Venezuelan born, Florida based defence contractor initially identified as the recruiter of the mercenaries held in the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise claims he is innocent and unaware of the plot to kill the president, further claims he was a victim of Haitian nationals’ hell bent on taking power in Haiti.
Lacayo Law, in a press release sent to the media on behalf of their client, defence contractor Antonio Enmanuel Intriago Valera, says that Mr Intriago has no knowledge of and took no part in the successful assassination of president Moise on July 7.
The release went on to say that Mr Intriago was a “victim” of an “elaborate scheme” organised by Haitian nationals hell bent on assuming power in Haiti by any means necessary.
The letter also mentions the Haitian national already in custody in Haiti, Dr Christian Sanon, arrested on July 12, just a few short days after the majority of the hitmen were rounded up, was the chief mastermind and represented himself along with another Haitian American male co-conspirator, James Solages, as investors looking to further their interest in development initiatives in Haiti.
Dr Sanon has been portrayed as a delusional dreamer to the Haitian presidency, and a staunch critic of Moise, having had several interviews posted on YouTube talking about how he intends to make Haiti a better place and offering himself up for leadership, but was never actually placed on a ballot for presidential elections in Haiti at any time and in no way is a significant player in the Haitian political landscape.
Mr Intriago was under the belief that Mr Sanon only visited his company, CTU Security, to help further redevelopment initiatives in Jacmel, Haiti, of which Mr Intriago admits to signing contracts to provide security for Sanon and Solages to help the duo further their humanitarian initiatives.
The release also names an associate of Mr Intriago, a “Mr Acrangel” as a person he relied on to investigate whether Sanon and Solages’s claims were true. It was Mr Arcangel’s job to make contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and US government officials and had FBI officials visit CTU offices on several occasions to confirm Dr Sanon’s authenticity the release also says.
Strangely enough, Dr Sanon at the time of his arrest in Haiti had in his possession US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) paraphernalia, including shorts, caps and other items belonging to the DEA, making this story even stranger as it is interesting, as it puts more emphasis on direct US government involvement in the assassination of Moise if Mr Intriago’s claims are true.
The press release also said that Mr Intriago did not train any of the mercenaries, the most of whom have been identified as ex-Colombian military officers along with two Haitian-American men, one of whom is Solages and another that goes by the name of Joseph Vincent, who at the time of their arrest in Haiti claim to only be interpreters for the Colombians. There were 28 persons wanted in connection with Moise’s slaying, 20 of them were captured by Haitian police, three died in a shootout with police and the remaining five are on the run.
People have forgotten that US mercenaries were captured in Haiti in 2019 in a failed attempt to move some $80m on behalf of then president Moise.
That 2019 American team included two former Navy SEALs, a former Blackwater-trained contractor, and two Serbian mercenaries who lived in the U.S. Their leader, a 52-year-old former Marine C-130 pilot named Kent Kroeker, had told his men that this secret operation had been requested and approved by Moïse himself.
The 2021 team that successfully killed Moise are alleged to have been procured by Mr Arcangel for Mr Sanon exclusively, says Mr Intriago’s lawyers. But at the last minute, the plans had changed for the mercenary team who had gone to Haiti under the pretence to provide security for Sanon but then redirected by Sanon to accompany a judge, “Windell Coq” who was to deliver a warrant to president Moise signed by the district attorney Gerald Norgaisee, the letter alleges. The mercenaries’ orders were to guard judge Coq and other Haitian court officials while the Haitian police executed the arrest warrant on Moise, however upon their entrance to the presidential palace compound, president Moise was already dead and his wife was badly injured.
The release also says that it is Mr Intriago’s belief that the president’s own bodyguards betrayed him. Intriago insisted that he had no hand in president Moise’s killing and was in Texas with family members at the time of the assassination.
Other appendices of this release by the Lacayo law firm name other persons involved in the “humanitarian” investment opportunity in Jacmel, naming a firm EoS Organisation LLC in a solar infrastructure framework agreement for Jacmel along with several signatures to a bizarre Memorandum of Understanding on a “refoundation of the Republic of Haiti.”
Who knows how deep this rabbit hole would go? But since Mr Intriago was outed by the Miami Herald last month as the contractor responsible for organising the Colombian mercenaries, the story just keeps getting deeper and deeper.