An investigation into the death of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse revealed that some of the captured hit men admitted that their primary goal was to find the president’s list of suspected drug traffickers, according to The New York Times. 

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Moïse was assassinated in his Port-au-Prince home on July 7. Before his death, the then-Haitian president had worked on a list of businesspeople and politicians who took part in the country’s drug trade. He had the goal to turn in the dossier to the American government, the Times reported. 

His wife, Martine Moïse, was shot during the break-in. She reportedly pretended to be dead while they searched the room and dug through his files. She heard them saying, “That’s it” and they left the residence. 

“When they left, they thought I was dead,” she said to The New York Times in her first interview since her husband’s death. 

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The list was part of the broader situation of the problems that Moïse had with powerful figures who were suspected of arms and narcotics trafficking. 

In the months before Moïse’s assassination, he had taken steps to clean up Haiti’s customs department, nationalize a seaport that has a reputation of smuggling, demolish an airstrip used by drug traffickers and look into the eel trade as it has been a channel for money laundering, as reported by the Times. 

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American officials have said if the Haitian president’s assassination isn’t solved, then a lot of Haitians would worry that it could embolden the criminal networks that have taken over the country.