Colombians held in Haitian president's assassination claim ties to Miami-area security firm
BY JACQUELINE CHARLES, KEVIN G. HALL, ANTONIO MARIA DELGADO, AND BIANCA PADRÓ OCASIO
JULY 10, 2021 03:38 PM, UPDATED 36 MINUTES AGO
The Miami area is looming ever larger as investigators question the men held in the plot to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
Seventeen Colombians and two Haitian Americans from South Florida are in custody in Haiti. A person who interviewed the detained Colombians in Haiti told the Miami Herald that the men claimed to have been recruited to do work in Haiti by an under-the-radar firm in Doral called CTU Security. It is run by a Venezuelan émigré, Antonio Enmanuel Intriago Valera.
This screenshot from the Facebook page of Venezuelan emigre Antonio Intriago shows that he opposes the Maduro regime in Venezuela. Captured Colombians accused of participating in the July 7, 2021, assassination of Haiti’s president claim they were hired by Intriago’s Doral-based company CTU Security. Relatives of the detained say they were there to provide security for wealthy people.
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Multiple sources in Haiti, requesting anonymity for their safety, have confirmed to the Herald that the detained men said they were hired by CTU, and several of the men indicated they had been in Haiti for at least three months, some longer. It is unclear if they knew or believed CTU leaders were aware of the assassination plot.
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Solages worked as a maintenance director at a senior-living center in Lantana until this past April 12. Little is known about the other man but documents obtained Saturday show his name may have been reversed in the Haitian proceedings and that it is really Joseph Gertand Vincent. His sparse public footprint shows he was indicted in 1999 for making a false statement on a passport application and given probation.
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Florida license records show Intriago is state licensed to provide security services and carry a firearm. He has few other fingerprints in public records, except for one detainee filed against him in 2011.
Intriago has a website that shows it as a wholesaler and retailer of safety equipment.
“As a representative of large and important manufacturers of security and safety devices around the world, our goal is to provide first-class personalized products and services to law enforcement and military units, as well as to industrial customers, ”the company said in its About Us section. .
Known in circles of Venezuelan expatriates in South Florida, Intriago is said to boast of his police past in the South American country. Sometimes, said someone who knew him but did not want to be identified in the growing story, Intriago claimed to have connections or to have worked directly for US agencies.
One person claiming to have known him in Venezuela said Intriago worked in a small office in Doral, where he would boast of being a paid mercenary and special forces coordinator, but most people did not take these claims to account. serious.
The source, who requested anonymity to speak freely, said Intriago is also known to provide firearms, gun parts, and military and police equipment such as protective vests. bullets.
Public records show him in a small, gated, three-bedroom residence a few blocks from I-95 near Miami Northwestern High. Venezuela’s voter database shows he remains registered to vote there through the Miami Consulate.
Intriago’s Facebook page provides a bit of a timeline. Showing him appearing to arrive in the US around 2009 and initially working with alarm systems. His social media presence is largely apolitical, with the exception of a few posts against the Venezuelan government and one in favor of Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan lawmaker whom the Trump administration has recognized as the legitimate leader of the oil-rich country.
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Haitians gather outside the US embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, amid rumors on radio and social media that the United States will issue exile and humanitarian visas, two days after Haitian President Jovenel Moise left murdered in his home. (AP Photo / Joseph Odelyn) - Photo: AP
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SEMANA spoke with Giovanna Arelis Romero Dussan, wife of retired Army First Sergeant Mauricio Javier Romero, who died in Haiti, in confusing events in that country. The woman recounted the last moments she spent in the company of her partner before never hearing from him again.
“Mauricio, when boarding his flight at the airport, took a photo of his ticket saying that he was going to Santo Domingo and that was the information that we knew, we had no knowledge that he was in another country, we always believed in communications; he did not give details of where he was, "he said.
The Herald also reveals that the CTU company is registered as a Counter-Terrorism Unit, being also a federal academy and that it was created only in 2019, in the company's records also appears Arcángel Pretel Ortiz, a citizen who had also had a signature own security and that it was liquidated.
Intriago's company has permits to carry firearms and provide security services, and the media verified that it was also a supplier of other types of military and police elements, such as bulletproof vests, ammunition, spare parts and other types of articles. However, due to the firm's short history and lack of recognition in the state of Florida, it is believed that it did not have the financial muscle to train dozens of mercenaries who broke into Moïse's residence and assassinated him.
Faced with this type of information, the Haitian government minister, Mathias Pierre, asked the United States and the United Nations (UN) to send troops to protect its ports, airport and other strategic sites, after the assassination of the president.
“We think that the mercenaries [who are accused of the crime] could destroy some infrastructure to create chaos in the country. During a conversation with the Secretary of State of the United States and the UN, we made this request, ”the official told The New York Times .
In his speech he added that "the group that financed the mercenaries wants to create chaos in the country, attack gas reserves and the airport could be part of the plan."
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