Haiti minister says ‘big fish’ behind president’s killing still at large

New prime minister announced as elections chief says current suspects were probably not ringleaders

The big fishes" who masterminded the assassination of Haiti's president, Jovenel Moise, remain at large, a senior government minister has admitted, as the Caribbean country unveiled a new prime minister in a bid to defuse a burgeoning struggle for power.

Police have named two Haitian citizens as key suspects in the murder: a Florida-based pastor called Christian Emmanuel Sanon and the former intelligence officer Joseph Felix Badio. On Friday Colombia's police chief, Gen Jorge Luis Vargas, claimed Badio might have given the order for two retired Colombian soldiers to assassinate Moise in the early hours of 7 July for reasons that remain obscure. Sanon was arrested in Haiti last week, and Badio's whereabouts are unknown.