Dozens of federal agents fanned out across South Florida Tuesday to carry out the first search warrants related to the assassination of Haiti鈥檚 president, Jovenel Mo茂se, focusing on two local businessmen that Haitian authorities suspect funded and trained the group of Colombians and others implicated in his killing.
Teams of FBI and Homeland Security Investigations agents zeroed in on five locations in Doral, Westchester and Weston in Miami-Dade and Broward counties to gather financial records and other documents as part of a federal investigation into whether they knowingly played a supportive role at his home on July 7.
The federal investigation, run by the counter-terrorism section of the U.S. Attorney鈥檚 Office, is trying determine whether the local businesses conspired to provide 鈥渕aterial support鈥� that resulted in the killing of Mo茂se or any other lesser crimes such as export violations, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
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