New York, United States.
The judge presiding over the case against the alleged Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fonts Ramírez, suspended the remote connection of the process, after several media violated the ban on recording parts of the process.
In an order, Judge Kevin Castel insists that the possibility of connecting to the trial by telephone is a “mere courtesy” offered by the togat and assures that the authorities will have an additional room in the courts of Manhattan, where the trial has been held since last week, to follow the witnesses.
The prosecution has also asked the judge to maintain the suspension of the telephone connection to the trial because two of the witnesses who will go to court will testify using pseudonyms for fear of reprisals.
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“The Government learned that at least some of the court proceedings held on March 11, 2021, were recorded in audio and posted on the internet on various social media and video streaming sites,” the prosecution team said. participating in the case.
On March 11, the testimony of the former leader of the Honduran cartel of Los Cachiros Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga took place, who accused the president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, and the vice president, Ricardo Álvarez Arias, of receiving bribes in exchange for protection.
During his speech, Rivera, who is detained in the United States, said that for several years he worked with the defendant in cocaine trafficking, also involved former presidents José Manuel Zelaya and Porfirio Lobo, as well as politicians, police and military.
sources Ramirez he is charged with possession of a firearm and conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States, charges of which he has pleaded not guilty.
During the opening of the opinion, the Prosecutor’s Office defended that the Central American country is a “narco-state” and that the defendant is an important piece in the alleged gear of the system.
It is not the first time the US Government points to Juan Orlando Hernandez.
During the trial against the president’s brother, Tony Hernandez, held in late 2019 in New York, several witnesses already implicated Hernandez and other high-ranking government commanders in alleged bribes in exchange for protection and aid to drug cartels.