Tegucigalpa, Honduras
The brother of the Honduran man requested for extradition by the United States, Óscar Fernando Sants Tobar alias Teto, is running for deputy in the Salvadoran Honduras Party (PSH) led by Salvador Nasralla.
Julius Caesar Saints Tobar goes in the group of candidates to dipiutados by the department of Copán, the west of Honduras.
According to the records of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Saints Tobar was inscribed on Salvador Nasralla’s party sheet on June 24, 2021.
In 2017 he was part of the Liberal Party staff when Luis Zelaya ran for the presidency of Honduras, but did not get a curule.
After the capture of the “Teto”, in the networks began to criticize the presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla for accepting on his pages relatives of Hondurans accused of drug trafficking by the United States.
Neither the Salvadoran Party of Honduras nor the candidate have commented on the matter.
Santos Tobar alias Sostre
Saints Tovar was captured on Monday in the municipality of Paradise, department of Copán, in the west of Central American country, and later transferred to Tegucigalpa in a helicopter of the Honduran Air Force.
The Honduran is being extradited by an East Texas District Court for “conspiracy to manufacture and distribute five kilograms of cocaine, with the intent, knowledge and cause, that this amount of the hallucinogen would be transported illegally.” legally in U.S. territory, “according to the petition.
The Honduran Supreme Court noted that the detainee will appear on October 1 at a hearing for the presentation and evacuation of evidence, in which the judge will decide whether or not to accept the extradition request.
Santos is also linked to the “drug cartels operating in the West” of the Central American nation, according to the prosecution.