TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.- One more evidence than the Guatemalan Axel López he did not have the technical or financial capabilities to sell him the seven mobile hospitals in the State it is that as soon as it had in his bank account 200 dollars (about 4,800 lempiras).
This version was found in the tax claim issued against Lopez, Marco Bográn i Alex Moraes by the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Transparency and the Fight against Public Corruption (Fetccop) to which he had access THE HERALD.
In the indictment it was established that “prior to the State of Honduras paying the first two mobile hospitals, Axel López he only had $ 200 in his bank account in the name of Elmed Medical System. “
“This company did not have the financial capacity to contract the construction of the seven mobile hospitals and treatment plants “, indicates the requirement. But the luck of Axel López he would change in the blink of an eye and suddenly become a new millionaire. March 19, Lopez receive from the state a first deposit of $ 15.9 million for the purchase of two hospitals.
Five days after this became effective, Lopez made the first international transfer to Turkey for five million dollars.
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On April 2, it received the second deposit from the state of $ 31,500,000 for the acquisition of another five hospitals and seven treatment plants.
Between April 6 and May 22, 2020, Lopez he also made four international transfers to the Turkish company Vertisa Cervera. Two $ 5 million deposits, one $ 10 million deposit and $ 1.5 million were detected.
“The fraudulent nature of the transactions is even more evident when it is found that the value paid to the manufacturer is $ 26 million, which represents 56% of the identified value of the sum of the contract compared to 44% of the same, equivalent to 20,900,000 dollars, which remained in the bank accounts of Axel López“, Reveals the requirement.
Prosecutors concluded that it was the state itself that financed the purchase of the mobile hospitals and no Axel López with their own money. Justice seeks to extradite Lopez to answer for the shameful act of corruption.
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