Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Former President Porfirio Lobo Sosa told the media on Friday that he is ready to go to court. New York if called to testify after the accusations, Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, former leader of the cartel the Cachiros.
Rivera Maradiaga reveal that the Government of “Pepe” Wolf (2010-2014) helped The Cachiros to launder money. “He gave us several road contracts. The Pepe Lobo government paid us with checks from the government of Honduras and so the money of the drug trafficking“He said.
“I’m not afraid of anything. How can you believe a criminal who seeks to reduce his sentence … I presented the Prosecutor’s Office and contact me at the embassy of United States and I exchanged communications with the Ambassador. In addition, my lawyer appeared at the Prosecutor’s Office in USA and here we are, ”Llosa Sosa said in response.
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He said that the former leader of the Los Cachiros cartel has been repeating the same lies since the trial of his son in 2017. He clarified that the president does not give contracts but the secretaries of stateIn order for this to happen, the guidelines required by law must be followed.
“In order for your company to be awarded contracts, you must have been pre-qualified to carry out work for the state. In this specific case I remember there was a commission in which was Finance and even the American Embassy through an organization, so that if they gave him the contract he was following the legal guidelines “.
Sosa revealed that he met Los Cachiros because they were palm businessmen in Tocoa, Colom, “they presented themselves that way and sneaked into meetings with investors.”
He maintains that until he met them until he came to government and has detailed that there were problems in the Security Council, As some judges were complacent with these “criminals.”
“However with the military the work was done to contain drug trafficking, because there is a procedure to follow.”
As for the accusations against the president Juan Orlando Hernández delimit that in this case the appointments are at the scale of senators and congressmen. “However, if they have enough elements to put in a tax requirement they will do so, with the president they would not do so at this time if not until he leaves the presidency, but I insist, that a commission should be set up in the Congress to investigate all mentioned in New York. Who said fear, who has nothing to fear. “