Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The former director of Honduras Strategic Investment (Invert-H) and Alex Moraes, Former administrative manager of this state institution, have been transferred by judicial determination to the National Penitentiary, a Támara, Francisco Morazán, After a judge sentenced this Friday to judicial imprisonment against former officials.
Bográn i Moraes are investigated by Public Ministry in the case of mobile hospitals and alleged crimes of fraud, embezzlement of public funds and abuse of authority.
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This Friday, they both testified before a corruption judge. This led to a court arrest. This Saturday, both will have to testify at 09 am. again before this being.
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From the facilities of the Courts in Corruption, After an intense day in which communicators flooded the place in search of versions, Bográn and Moraes were transferred, in a minibus, protected by public security officers, to Támara, Francisco Morazán, region where it is located the National Penitentiary Marco Aurelio Soto.
There, they will be admitted if authorities of this institution sign the transfer request from the First Infantry Battalion to one of the annexes of the penitentiary.
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overvaluation The National Anticorruption Council estimates that the facilities were overvalued by about $ 32 million and that their actual cost is $ 15 million and not $ 47 million, according to official sources. |
After the summons to the ex-officials, this Thursday, Public Ministry formalize the request for a tax claim against the investigated, which, this Friday, was accepted by the Honduran court.
Meanwhile, Bográn and Moraes they spent the night in the facilities of this court, where they remained locked up in the shelter of agents of Penthouse. They will remain locked up in the annex of this penitentiary center, located in the First Infantry Battalion.
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$ 47 million He paid Invest-H to Elmed Medical Systems, between March and April 2020, for seven mobile hospitals, manufactured in Turkey. These, in addition to not arriving on time required and agreed upon, were also not suitable for operation in Honduras. However, Honduras failed to demand or sue suppliers for lack of contractual guarantees. The institution’s intervening board has described the negotiation as “a big scam”. |
Meetings and legal advocacy of the accused they claim that these are innocent and that they are not men of opulence, as, they argue, is projected in the media and public opinion. In addition, they consider that the research has tints of persecution and has been politicized.
PHOTOS: Faces of anguish and pain in audience by Marc Bográn and Alex Moraes
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Another of the protagonists of the mobile hospitals case is the Guatemalan Axel López, businessman and legal representative of Elmed Medical Systems, Consortium with which Bográn and officials of Invest-H, in March of 2020, Negotiated the acquisition of facilities to combat covid-19.
Prosecutor’s Office has also requested an international arrest warrant against Lopez, Although no further details have been provided around it, product, in part, of the scarcity of cases of orders of the Justice of Honduras on foreign nationals.