Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
In the final stretch of the initial hearing of the case dubbed Mobile Hospitals, former Honduran director of Strategic Investment (Invest-H) Marc Bográn testified before Honduran justice.
The former official referred to the negotiation process and administrative procedures that concluded with the failed acquisition of the seven mobile hospitals.
During his presentation, Bográn stated that he was not blame them (Invest-H) that the country’s health system was collapsing.
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“It’s a witch hunt,” said Bográn on the prosecution’s indictment, because according to him both the government cabinet and the National Congress itself approved a series of purchases and emergency decrees amid the pandemic caused by the covid -19, so he requested that these officials are being investigated.
Bográn’s lawyer, Marc Tulio Castro, Has stated that behind the purchase of mobile hospitals are other state officials who were not charged by the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Transparency and Combating Public Corruption (Fetccop). “He was instructed by the ministers who had to do with the pandemic. It was not a unilateral decision, he was instructed by senior state officials,” he said. Anti-corruption prosecutors have expressed that the acquisition investigation remains open and that eventually the tax requirement will be expanded.
conclusions
With the evacuation of 50 means of testing the initial hearing initiated against Bográn and Alex Moraes, former administrative manager of Invest-H, ended yesterday. The conclusions stage is scheduled to begin on this day.
During this process, prosecutors will list each of the arguments as to why Bográn and Moraes should be prosecuted and tried. While his defense will conclude that the ex-officials did not commit any crime when acquiring the hospital premises.
Procedural parties are summoned from 9:00 am. At the conclusion of this procedure, the judge in the case, Vera Barahona, will retire to deliberate on each of the evidence to issue its decision.