Rodolphe Jaar has pled guilty to three charges in a plot to Assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moise, gunned down in his home in 2021. The 11 defendants in the case include businessmen accused of helping obtain vehicles and firearms from Florida and former Colombian soldiers accused of killing Moise in his bedroom. Jaar met with the co-conspirators the night before the assassination, according to the statement, at which time Haitian-American James Solages stated the aim was to kill Moise. The court document added that Jaar also met other defendants, including former Haitian Senator Joseph Joel John, Haitian American Joseph Vincent, Colombian ex-military officer German Rivera and Antonio Intriago, the Venezuelan owner of a Miami-based private security firm. Jaar has also been accused of helping a group of Colombians implicated in the case hide from Haitian authorities, according to a U.S. Justice Department statement issued after his arrest last year. Jaar was detained in the neighboring Dominican

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