FILE - In this July 20, 2021 record photo, Haiti's designated Prime Minister Ariel Henry, center, and interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, right, airs for a radical photograph with different authorities successful beforehand of a representation of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise astatine the National Pantheon Museum during a memorial work for Moise successful Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitis main authoritative has asked a justice to complaint Henry successful the slaying of his predecessor and barred him from leaving the country. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn, File)

FILE - In this July 20, 2021 record photo, Haiti's designated Prime Minister Ariel Henry, center, and interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph, right, airs for a radical photograph with different authorities successful beforehand of a representation of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moise astatine the National Pantheon Museum during a memorial work for Moise successful Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitis main authoritative has asked a justice to complaint Henry successful the slaying of his predecessor and barred him from leaving the country. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti's main authoritative connected Tuesday asked a justice to complaint Prime Minister Ariel Henry successful the slaying of the president and asked officials to barroom him from leaving the country.

The bid filed by Port-au-Prince authoritative Bed-Ford Claude came connected the aforesaid time that helium had requested Henry conscionable with him and explicate wherefore a cardinal fishy successful the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse called him doubly conscionable hours aft the killing.

“There are capable compromising elements ... to prosecute Henry and inquire for his outright indictment,” Claude wrote successful the order.

A spokesperson for Henry could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.

Claude said the calls were made astatine 4:03 and 4:20 a.m. connected July 7, adding that grounds shows the suspect, Joseph Badio, was successful the vicinity of Moïse’s location astatine that time.

Badio erstwhile worked for Haiti’s Ministry of Justice and astatine the government’s anticorruption portion until helium was fired successful May amid accusations of violating unspecified ethical rules.

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In the two-page document, Claude said the calls lasted a full of 7 minutes and that Henry was astatine the Hotel Montana successful Port-au-Prince astatine that time. He besides noted that a authorities authoritative tweeted past period that Henry told him helium ne'er spoke with Badio.

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