UNITED NATIONS — The United States and the United Nations slapped sanctions on the former head of Haitian presidential security and the leader of a Haitian gang on Friday for their roles in criminal gang activities that have destabilized the impoverished Caribbean nation.

The U.S. Treasury Department said the two men supported a coalition of gangs that the Trump administration designated as a foreign terrorist organization earlier this year.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution hours later ordering all 193 U.N. member nations to freeze the men’s assets and impose a travel ban. The resolution also imposes an arms embargo on Haiti.

The sanctions were placed on Dimitri Herard, who was head of presidential security when President Jovenal Moise was assassinated in 2021.

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