San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Three men and a woman, accused of the crime of money laundering, received the measure of judicial detention on Tuesday in the hearing of the defendant’s statement.
Hermes Geronci Gutiérrez Hernández, Hermes Ariel Gutiérrez Velásquez, Eber Arturo Osorio and Maria Consuelo Corrals are noted as members of a financial structure linked to Orlando Pinto Espino and the Rivera Maradiaga brothers.
The defendants, captured during the execution of the “Rosmery” operation, were sent from the Choluteca Regional Prosecutor’s Office to San Pedro Sula, Cortés, by agents of the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation (Atic) and detectives of the Directorate for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (DLCN).
The competent judge set the initial hearing for next Monday, September 20, 2021, at 9:00 a.m.
The alleged ringleaders of the Pinto and Cachiros were sent to the El Progrés penitentiary, Yoro.
Operation Rosmery was carried out after discovering how a criminal organization was laundering assets from the Pinto and the Rivera Maradiaga brothers, so the Public Ministry executed 17 home violations and 110 property insurances, including 54 furniture and real estate, 48 Vehicles-eight companies, in addition to the inspection of two companies, all these assets linked to members of the structure of Orlando Pinto Espino, captured in December 2018 in Guatemala.
The prosecution reported that “according to investigations, this structure has moved in recent years an estimated 1126 million lempiras in the domestic and foreign financial system.”
“It was also possible to determine that the defendants have no cause of legal justification of this money product of the relationship that was able to prove they had with the criminal structures referred to above, as even in the banking system could not justify transactions and money transfers generated in 12 Suspicious Operations Reports (ROS), reported by the financial information unit through the National Banking and Insurance Commission (CNBS), being its relevant years in 2014 and 2015, ”he said. Find out more.