New York, United States.
The trial against Honduran Geovanny Fonts Ramirez entered the final stretch in New York.
Yesterday, the judge Kevin Castel reported to the procedural parties who today will begin to set out the final arguments of the trial.
This means that the Manhattan prosecutors will have to explain why Sources must be found guilty of conspiring to introduce hundreds of tons of cocaine into U.S. territory.
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For their part, defense attorneys will present their allegations aimed at proving the innocence of the accused.
Once this stage is over, the jury of 12 New York citizens will retire to deliberate on each of the pieces of evidence that were evacuated during the trial.
They will later issue their verdict.
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During the debate process, the U.S. Attorney General’s Office presented a series of evidence involving sources Ramirez in the drug trafficking business.
The star witness of the prosecutors was the ringleader of the Los Cachiros cartel, Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, who revealed that Fuentes Ramírez had a criminal structure made up of police, military and politicians to traffic cocaine in the United States.
El Cachiro said he had bribed Joan Orlando Hernández, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, former president Manuel Zelaya and Ricardo Álvarez. A series of photographs of the accused was also presented with the military, his children and siblings posing with politicians, firearms and large sums of money. And conversations transpired between him and Honduran agents in which they allegedly discussed issues related to drug trafficking.
In the final phase of the trial, a video of the interrogation made by Sandalio González, DEA agent, transpired. on the day of his capture in Miami.