TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.- The deputy of the National party by the department of Columbus, Óscar Nájera, Reacted after that during the testimony of Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, Leader of the cartel of “The Cachiros”, in the trial against the alleged Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fonts, He mentioned that the legislature served as an intermediary to make the payment of a bribe of $ 250 thousand to the president Juan Orlando Hernández when the latter was aspiring to hold this office.
According to Rivera Maradiaga’s testimony, Nájera served as an intermediary between him and the president’s dead sister, Hilda Hernández, To be able to carry out the payment of this sum which as its objective was to guarantee to the powerful drug trafficker to be able to carry out his criminal actions without the fear of being persecuted by the authorities.
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Faced with this version, the deputy Óscar Nájera gave statements in this regard in an interview with the HRN station, where “he guaranteed before God, before the people and before his family that he would never lend himself to being an intermediary, an extortionist “.
“As a legislator I like to meet with humble people, with village people. My training is rustic, it is field,” Nájera added.
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Nájera ended his speech by adding that “for my mother, for my children and for all the Honduran people, I swear to God that I do not get the sleep that is mentioned that I could be extradited. I am calm and I walk up and down “.
This is not the first time that the name of Óscar Nájera has come to light due to alleged links to drug trafficking, as previously Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga he had also mentioned him as one of the collaborators of the “Els Cachiros” cartel during his testimony in the trial against Tony Hernandez, Brother of the president Joan Orlando Hernández.
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