(CNN)-Christian Sanon, the Haitian-American doctor accused by the plot authorities to kill the president of Haiti, spent months planning an incursion into national politics in the country, holding zoom weekly meetings until the beginning of this year withacademics and business leaders, and at one point he met with the man who supposedly supplied to mercenaries behind the murder, according to a person at the meeting.
The political effort never included a plan for violent overthrow, said the people involved.Two men who attended meetings with Sanon called him a reflexive politician with a genuine interest in improving the country.And a letter sent to a senior official of the United States Department at the end of May described a serious project that had the support of Haitian leaders who "represent approximately 80% of the population".
But according to the authorities of Colombia and Haiti, Sanon had a secret plan B.The Haitian police alleges that Sanon recruited the more than two dozen men who broke into the residence of Jovenel Moïse, the murdered president, in an attempt to take power.
Sanon met in May with two Colombian commands that led the operation, said the Chief of the Police of Colombia on Thursday, and the original group plan was to stop the president and deliver it to the United States Anti -Drug Agency (DEA).
Sanon was arrested during the weekend in Haiti in a raid in a house where, according to a source close to the investigation that is not authorized to discuss the incident, the police recovered boxes of ammunition, 24 whites of unused shooting and a capWith the label "DEA".Sanon has told the police that he had no knowledge of the attack, CNN reported Wednesday.CNN has not been able to contact Sanon or other people arrested since the murder.
The murder and intrigue around police investigation is read as a novel compared to the political campaign that Sanon directed over the table, people who were involved in the political process said in the political process.
In an interview on Wednesday, Parnell Duverger, economist and former university professor at Florida, said he attended several online meetings from 2020 where Sanon and a group of other Haiti experts developed an agenda for a transition government in whichSanon would be the prime minister.
According to Durverger, Sanon told the group that he had the support of the United States and the international community in his commitment to leadership, although he did not provide evidence to support that statement.
The group was operating under the assumption that Haiti president would eventually resign as protests increased in the country, giving way to the interim government, said Duverger.There was never talk of a coup attempt, he said.
"Zoom meetings gathered, in my opinion, a variety of specialists and good people who had a lotsuccessful if applied, "Duverger said.
Other sessions were held in person.At a meeting in the center of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which Duverger said that he believed that it took place in early May, Antonino Intriago and Walter Veintemilla attended, two men who have said in recent days that they played a key role in themurder.
Intriago, a Venezuelan who lives in southern Florida, directs the security company that, according to the police, provided the men who carried out the murder.Sanon had hired CTU, the firm, to recruit men, authorities said.CNN has not been able to communicate with Ctu and Intriago.
Veinemilla, according to the corporate records of Florida, is the president of Worldwide Capital Lending Group, a company that the Haiti police said Wednesday that it helped to "raise money for men to carry out the acts".
In a statement sent to CNN on Thursday, Worldwide Capital Lending Group denied any participation in the plot, saying that he had been contacted by Sanon, as well as by current and previous elected officials of Haiti, "to help obtain financing for energy plants andOther infrastructure projects in Haiti ".
"At no time during a meeting or conversation with the DR.Sanon or with any of its representatives there was some mention, discussion or suggestion of a murder plot against President Moïse or the intention of using force to achieve a change of leadership in Haiti, "said the company.
"Contrary to certain media reports, no Worldwide Capital Representative Lending Group attended meetings in the Dominican Republic or Haiti at any time," added the company.
Duverger said that the meeting at Fort Lauderdale was held to discuss "the financing of the construction of the necessary infrastructure to have a lasting economic development in 30 years or less".
The New York Times was the first to report on meetings behind the Sanon political campaign.
Earl this year, Sanon changed his plan and supposedly told the group that he wanted to become president of Haiti instead of Prime Minister, according to Duverger.
The plan was detailed in a letter to a senior state department official at the end of May.
Signed "Pueblo de Haiti", the letter was published on a now missing website that advocates Sanon's leadership in a transition government and warns about an imminent crisis at the hands of Moïse.
"Moïse has shown that he intends to use his power, intimidation and endless brutality on a large scale to expand and extend his control of Haiti through the establishment of a new 'Constitution' in just a few weeks," says the letter, which wasFirst reported by Dailymail.com."We pray so that this does not happen, but time ends; as you know, a 'Mecha' has been lit since February 7! Something must soon".
A state department spokesman referred CNN to the Haitian authorities to comment on the investigation, but added that "they receive a regular correspondence flow".
"We actively relate to Haitian-American individuals and groups in unofficial conversations.We also receive a regular correspondence flow, "said the spokesman.
"We have long supported the political leaders and civil society Haitians to join to strengthen democratic institutions and achieve an inclusive solution that facilitates peace and stability," they said.
There are indications that support for Sanon described on the website and in the letter may have been exaggerated.A United Nations consultant who appears in a prominent place on the website as part of a coalition that supports the doctor's leadership said in an interview that he was not aware of his presence on the site and that he had met with Sanon atime.
Frantz Gilot, the consultant, said he discussed issues related to criminal justice in Haiti at a January meeting with Sanon and more than 20 people involved in the political effort.
But he said that "he was not interested" in the project.
"Someone put my name on this site," he said."I am not a SR sponsor.Sanon or your team ".
An UN mission official in Haiti also appears as a supporter of Sanon.The messages left to the official were not answered.
Duverger said Zoom's regular meetings stopped earlier this year.At that time, Sanon's desire to lead and improve Haiti seemed real, he said.But with the news of the murder and arrest of Sanon, his opinion has changed.
"At this time, I don't believe anything that came out of that man's mouth.I think they were teaching us all, "Duverger said.
Jennifer Hansler of CNN contributed to this report.