HIT ON MOISE ORDERED 3 DAYS EARLIER: PROBE

BOGOTA Former Haitian justice ministry official Joseph Felix Badio could have ordered the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, Colombia's police chief, General Jorge Vargas, said on Friday.

Haitian President Jovenel Moise, pictured, was shot dead in his Port-au-Prince residence on July 7.

An investigation has revealed Badio may have given the order three days before the attack, Vargas said in an audio message.

According to Vargas, Badio could have ordered former Colombian soldiers Duberney Capador and German Rivera, who had initially been contacted to carry out security services, to kill Moise.

“Several days before, apparently three, Joseph Felix Badio, a former official of (Haiti's) ministry of justice, who worked in the anti-corruption unit with the general intelligence service, told Capador and Rivera they had to assassinate the president of Haiti,” Vargas said.

The group of assassins allegedly included 26 Colombians and two Haitian-Americans.