Choluteca, Honduras.- Four people captured and movable and immovable property insured left as a result the operation Rosmery who developed the Public Ministry in Choluteca, after property violations by a criminal gang linked to Orlando Pinto and the Rivera Maradiaga brothers, known as “The Cachiros”.
The detainees are Hermes Geronci Gutiérrez Hernández and his son Hermes Ariel Gutierrez Velásquez, who were captured by agents of the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation (ATIC) Along with Eber Arturo Osorto and his wife, Maria Consuelo Corrales, a couple who were captured by agents of the Directorate for the Fight against Drug Trafficking (DLCN).
According to the report of the Public Ministry (MP), 110 properties were insured, including 23 furniture and real estate, 48 vehicles and eight companies.
These assets will be supervised by the Office of the Administrator of Confiscated Assets (OABI).
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In addition, the inspection was carried out in two companies, all these assets linked to members of the structure of Orlando Pinto Espino, Who was captured in December 2018 in Guatemala. According to investigations, this criminal structure has moved in recent years about 1,126,000 lempiras in the domestic and foreign financial system.
“The defendants have no cause for legal justification of money product of the relationship that was managed to prove they had with the criminal structures referred to above, as even in the banking system could not justify the transactions and transfers of money generated in twelve Reports of Suspicious Operations (ROS), Reported by the Financial Information Unit through the National Banking and Insurance Commission (CNBS), Being its years of relevance in 2014 and 2015 “, detailed the accusing body.
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The report states that investigations began after the confiscation of $ 124,000 that was hidden in a cove in a ditch that was in the name of Olvin Rubén Betancourt.
This fact was recorded on January 24, 2018 in Port Cortés.
Olvin Rubén Betancourt, in the period from 2013 to 2018, recorded atypical financial movements of around 254,559,128 lempiras.
It is also directly linked to Orlando Pinto Espino and Ligia Motiño, the latter was captured in 2017 in Nicaragua for drug trafficking.
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Orlando Pinto from rancher he became a drug dealer and later pretended to be the pastor of an evangelical church in Guatemala, to continue his illicit activities in the brother country. Pinto is a Honduran who was linked to the poster of Alexander Ardó, the Vall Vall and “Els Cachiros”.
He was captured in the village of El Palmar, kilometer 509 route to Gran Ixcán beach, Quiché, Guatemala, when he pretended to be an evangelical pastor.
According to research, Orlando Pinto, Alias ”The King of the North”, had its operations center in the southern corridor of Honduras since 2010.
Pinto is considered a fugitive from justice because he faces charges of money laundering and drug trafficking in Honduras.
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