NEW YORK, UNITED STATES. –U.S. prosecutors have asked for some photographs showing the president of Honduras to be admitted to a trial. Juan Orlando Hernández, With people allegedly involved in drug trafficking.
The images appear completely obscured in court documents, but southern New York district prosecutors say they show CC-4 or co-conspirator number four, which is how they have identified the president in criminal proceedings against some alleged traffickers .
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The prosecution asked in these documents to the judge Kevin Castel to admit the photographs as evidence at trial to Geovanny Fonts-Ramirez, a Honduran accused of drug trafficking who was arrested in Miami in March 2020.
The trial is expected to kick off on March 8 at the court of Judge Castel in New York, although Fuentes-Ramirez’s attorney asked for a postponement of at least a week on Wednesday.
Prosecutors have identified the Honduran president as CC-4 over and over again in multiple court documents, saying he was the winner of Honduras’ presidential election in 2013. However, so far there is no open trial against he in United States.
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One photograph allegedly shows President Hernandez next to CC-14 and another next to CC-3, two people who according to prosecutors Jacob Gutwillig and Matthew Laroche are involved in drug trafficking in Honduras. Prosecution spokesmen did not reveal the identities of the two alleged traffickers.
Prosecutors considered in court documents that it is important to show photographs at trial to show that everyone, including the president, knows and is involved in criminal activity.
They said Fuentes-Ramirez contacted CC-14 from prison by email. Prosecutors then obtained photos of CC-14’s iCloud and Instagram accounts.
Neither CC-14 nor CC-3 are being held in any country, prosecutors said.
In the judicial documents of the prosecutors, which are available in the electronic system of the court, it is noted that CC-14 and Fonts-Ramírez describe the agent as “Juancho” in their electronic chats.
For about two years now, prosecutors and drug traffickers who have already been arrested have accused President Hernández of receiving funds from narcos in order to finance election campaigns and buy the votes of deputies to become president of Congress and later of the country.
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In the latest allegations in the face of opinion, prosecutors have said that the president accepted bribes from Fonts-Ramirez in exchange for protecting his cocaine laboratory and that he also agreed that the armed forces will help the trafficker in transporting the drug.
Hernandez has repeatedly denied the allegations and said they are based on lies made by narcos seeking revenge on him and reducing his sentences in the United States.
The president’s name was also constantly repeated in the trial of his brother Tony Hernandez, held in the same New York court in 2019. Tony Hernandez he was found guilty of drug trafficking and is being held awaiting sentencing.
Avraham Moskowitz, Fuentes-Ramirez’s lawyer, on Wednesday called for a postponement of the start of the trial for a few days as he said prosecutors in the case handed him this week recordings of calls from prison made in Spanish and e-mails written in Spanish that need to be translated and revised.
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