TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.- The ex-wife of the commissioner of Police, Lorgio Oquelí Mejía Tinoco (Fugitive Justice), was found guilty Thursday of the crime of money laundering.
Tinoco’s ex-wife, identified as Denisse Yamileth Morales, she was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 50 percent of the value of the asset, in this case 330,000 748 lempiras with 78 cents, in addition to the confiscation of identified financial products to the condemned.
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Morales was captured by a team of Special Operations, Communications and Strategic Support from the Attic to the city of San Pedro Sula, after he evaded justice for 16 months.
Confiscation of property
In February 2020, the prosecution requested a judge to permanently deprive Lorgio Oquelí Mejía Tinoco and her family of 24 real estate, real estate and insured banking products.
Among the confiscated property were two homes, three vehicles and six bank accounts of Mejía Tinoco, 6 financial products in the name of his wife Wendy María Castro and seven bank accounts of his ex-partner Denisse Yamileth Morales, who was found guilty through a trial. abbreviated.
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According to the investigations of the Public Ministry, with the income of the ex-chief of the National Police “it is not justified more than 17 million lempiras in its patrimony and that is not congruent with the deserved monthly salary FROM 2012 TO 2017, that it was fifty-five thousand three hundred and ninety-five with twenty-one cents. “
corruption
According to the investigations, between 2012 and 2015, members of the police assigned to Choluteca asked for money from transporters so that they could move the cattle without any inconvenience, constituting such an act as bribes.
These illegal collections intensified when the commissioned and accused commissioner was appointed as Departmental Chief of Police in Choluteca and according to the investigation the payments were made in cash and came from money handled by the farmers, same as was delivered in the different control points, among them: Pavana, the Triumph, Namasigüe and in some occasions in the Facilities of the Choluteca Cattlemen’s Association (crouching).
The Public Prosecutor’s Office states that from the appointment of the commissioner as head of department, a criminal structure was formed, of which members of the Departmental Prevention Unit (UDEP) and the Directorate of Special Investigation Services were part ( DNSEI).
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