A Colombian ex-military man allegedly involved in last year’s assassination of former Haitian President Jovenel Moes will be deported from Jamaica to his homeland on Monday, Jamaican prosecutors announced on Saturday.
Mario Antonio Palacios, 43, has been accused by Haitian authorities of being part of a mercenary group that assassinated Jovenel Moise in July in a raid on his home, in which his wife was also injured.
Mr Palacios was arrested in Jamaica in October and convicted of entering the Dominican Republic illegally. Justice ordered his deportation. However, the Jamaican authorities have not reached an extradition agreement with Haiti, where he is wanted, a police spokesman explained.
“The information that has reached us does not link him to the murder, it essentially states that he is suspected of armed robbery, without further details,” according to a Jamaican police newsletter sent to Reuters. “Our efforts to provide more, more detailed information have been unsuccessful,” said a spokeswoman.
Mr Palacios’s defense attorneys are seeking his immediate release, arguing that his detention is illegal, according to a Jamaican police spokeswoman.
Neither Mario Antonio Palacios’s lawyers nor the Haitian government responded immediately when Reuters asked them to comment on the case.
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