Haiti’s former first lady Martine Moise has been indicted in the 2021 assassination of her husband President Jovenel Moise after a prosecutor suggested she wanted his job for herself.
Moise, 49, was included in a 70-person indictment recommendation from the capital’s top prosecutor obtained by The New York Times.
Judge Walther Voltaire has now reviewed the prosecutor’s documents and indicted the former first lady as well as the country’s former prime minister and police chief.
Moise is not accused of directly planning her husband’s shooting in July 2021.
Instead, the judge accused her of being complicit in her husband’s death and said he found contradictions in Moïse’s statements, as well as some evidence that suggested she knew about a plot against him.
The judge referred to testimony from two defendants who claimed she wanted to run for president after the killing, according to the Wall Street Journal.