San Pedro Sula, Cortés.
A hard tackle from Joaquín Meléndez to Bonilla he is the main one captured, in addition to his wife, through Operation Sigma which seeks to dismantle an organization that the authorities link to the crime of money laundering in the country.
Meléndez Bonilla it was surprising by agents the request this Monday in a house located in Santa Rosa de Copán, while his wife Reina Serrano Meléndez was arrested in a commercial center of San Pedro Sula.
“A stately financial opinion that the heritage of this country will dry up more than 200 million llempiras. Operations in different cities in the country are linked to Meléndez Bonilla, who is supposed to be responsible for committing laundering activities” , the commissioner reported Mario Molina, from National Police Directorate Anti-drugs.
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“This capture of international impact has taken place after a follow-up investigation, we are initially doing our thing here in Honduras, but we will be linked to various actions in other countries in Central and North America,” added Molina.
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The first indications of the case were obtained from a series of raids carried out on May 3, 2019 in the city of Santa Rosa de Copà by prosecutors in coordination with the Police Directorate of Investigations (DPI) and the Police Office of Financial Investigations (OPIF), later joining the National Police Anti-Drug Directorate (Dnpa) , the National Directorate of Border Police Services (Dnspf) and the Directorate of Police Intelligence (Dipol).(…)
Through field and patrimonial diligences, the Public Ministry, as detailed in a statement, you can identify the incorporation of companies as “Zapató”, among others, also verifies the acquisition of good furniture and real estate made by those investigated in this file during the period from 2001 to 2018.
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Likewise, the prosecutors and the police forces assure that they managed to establish that the denounced ones realized transfers of assets constantly, all this without any economic or licit justification of their procedure.
In this way, the Prosecutor’s Office filed a lawsuit against the alleged money launderers before a court with national jurisdiction, proceeding with executors in Santa Rosa de Copan and La Entrada, in the department of Copán; The Virtue, in the department of Lempira; Yorito, El Negrito and El Progreso in the department of Yoro; Puerto Cortés, San Pedro Sula and Villanueva, in the department of Cortés.
In total, the assets to be insured within the framework of Operation Sigma correspond to 27 real estates (residences and land), from two companies, branches and 17 vehicles.