At least one of the assailants who killed the Haitian President Jovenel Moise had been the United States Drug Enforcement Agency's confidential source. According to the statement released by the DEA,  at least one of the men who participated in the assassination of President Moise was “at times […] a confidential source to the DEA”.

It also appears that, following the dramatic raid on Moïse’s residence in Port Au-Prince on July 7, the suspect contacted his former DEA handler, who urged him to surrender to the Haitian authorities.

It also appeared that a Florida-based pastor hired the assassins through a Venezuelan security company headquartered in Florida.

The DEA is now collaborating with the Haitian Police to investigate the assassination, according to the agency itself.

Haitian police officials announced on Sunday the arrest of an alleged middleman in the murky plot, who allegedly assembled the team of assassins. They named the suspect Christian Emmanuel Sanon, 63, a native of Haiti who has lived in Florida for over two decades. Although a Christian pastor by profession, Sanon reportedly began to speak publicly against what he regarded as Haiti’s corrupt political elite in the months after the disastrous 2010 earthquake on the island.