ICE detains Dimitri Vorbe, one of Haiti’s most powerful magnates, in Miami.

Miami.- The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained Dimitri Vorbe in Florida, one of Haiti’s most powerful magnates, where he was a well-known opponent of President Jovenel Moïse, assassinated in 2021. U.S. authorities have not detailed the reason for the detention, but the official database shows that Vorbe, who directed the Haitian electricity company Société Générale d’Énergie (SOGENER), is “in ICE custody” at the Krome Detention Center in Miami.

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His capture occurs just two months after the July arrest of Haitian magnate Réginald Boulos in Florida, home to one of the largest Haitian communities outside the island. Following the assassination of Moïse in July 2021, the Haitian authorities summoned Vorbe, whose family owned the company that controls the electricity sector, and Boulos, owner of a conglomerate of companies, to testify, as the island’s government accused them of financing the protests that destabilized the country since 2018. Agents from the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) arrested Vorbe at his home last Tuesday, according to the Haitian media outlet Le Nouvelliste, citing family sources. The magnate is in the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), according to reports from the Miami Herald, and even thanked then-U.S. President Joe Biden in 2021 for implementing these benefits against deportation amid the crisis in Haiti. However, the current US president, Donald Trump, has ordered the elimination of the humanitarian benefit that Biden established to protect 210,000 Haitians from deportation and the TPS for 521,000, in addition to prohibiting travel with that country. In Miami, one of the trials of five people involved in the assassination of Moïse, tortured and murdered on July 7, 2021, in his residence in the capital sector of Pétion-ville by a group of mercenaries, seventeen of them Colombians, is still pending. Since then, there have been no elections in Haiti and gang violence on the island has increased, with more than four thousand homicides in the first half of 2025, according to the UN.