The wife of the late Haitian president, Jovenel Moise, is among those indicted in his brutal murder.
According to local media, a Haitian judge has accused several other people, including a former prime minister and an ex-chief of police.
The 53-year-old president was gunned down in his private apartment in July 2021 by a group of roughly 20 gunmen, the majority of whom were Colombian mercenaries. His security team did not intervene to defend him.
Since his death, Haiti has descended into turmoil. There has been no election, and Moise has not succeeded as President.
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Haitian news source AyiboPost published what it claimed was the full order from the judge investigating the assassination.
In it, the magistrate ordered the referral of Moise's widow, Martine Moise, and 50 others to the criminal court "to be judged on the facts of criminal conspiracy, armed robbery, terrorism, assassination, and complicity in the assassination."
The paper goes on to suggest that "indications of the involvement of the ex-first lady... are sufficient" to indict and that her comments were "so tainted by contradictions that they leave something to be desired and discredit her."
Former interim prime minister Claude Joseph and ex-director general of national police Leon Charles were also judged to have "sufficient indications" of complicity in the death, according to the paper.
The 122-page investigation did not "clearly identify the masterminds of the assassination, nor their financiers," according to AyiboPost.
Earlier this month, a US court condemned Joseph Vincent, a Haitian-American suspected of engaging in the killing, to life in prison.
The United States prosecuted 11 people for their alleged role in Moise's death, claiming that the cases fell within its jurisdiction because part of the murder plot was hatched in south Florida.
