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An international arrest warrant issued by Interpol has been pending against Guatemalan businessman Axel Gamaliel López Guzmán since April (International Criminal Police Organization), for alleged involvement in the sale of mobile hospital equipment in Honduras, however, was caught in the last hours in Miami, USA, at a medical fair.
Cameras at a medical fair in this city on the east coast of this country spotted the businessman participating in an exhibition where he has a space to promote mobile hospitals.
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Lopez, who is being investigated for the sale of the modular equipment, resides in the United States, as the legal representative of the company Elmed Medical Systems, of hospitesmoviles.com. He is being investigated by the Honduran Public Ministry for more than twenty inquiries, along with Marc Antoni Bográn and Alex Moraes, also syndicated for the resounding case of “mobile hospitals”.
Lopez provided these two, Honduras Investment and Strategy (Invest-H) executives, with structures and medical equipment to combat the covid-19 pandemic. However, Honduran authorities have called the $ 47 million acquisition a “fiasco.”
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The Guatemalan businessman Axel López, Which sold the seven mobile hospitals a Honduras Strategic Investment (Invest-H), will not be handed over “in advance” to Honduran justice.
This version was discarded by his lawyer Félix Ávila, who became the Court of Letters on Corruption to represent him on the charge of megafraud.
“The Lord Axel López he is out of Honduran territory and of course, whether or not he appears in court is a matter for the defense team to consider, not at first, “Ávila said.
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know- Guatemalan Axel López has been a fugitive from Honduran justice since April 8, 2020, the day he was accused of fraud. The prosecution will have to work closely with U.S. agencies to capture him, but if that happens a law firm will work against his extradition. |
He explained that his voluntary submission is not being considered “because this involves being remanded in custody under the circumstances of the Honduran and penitentiary procedural system, obviously not a favorable outlook.”
However, on López, owner of the company Elmed Medical System, there is a current international arrest warrant that could sooner or later materialize.
“The international capture order is a situation that the defense cannot control, we know very well that it is given the circumstance of being captured and if it were in United States“The Honduran authorities should begin an extradition process,” he said.
Although he said that if such a possibility existed, “a front of defense would be opened in United States to avoid extradition a Honduras“But the circumstances of a voluntary submission at the moment are ruled out.”
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L101 million (more than $ 4 million) ordered to secure the US Department of Justice, at the request of the Honduran Prosecutor’s Office, Axel López on June 3. |
For now, López’s defense team is studying the scope of the tax requirement, which was described as an unfounded accusation because the sale of the hospitals is a purely commercial and commercial matter, and not a criminal one as the Public Ministry.
When asked about López’s reaction after the accusation against him, he said that “he reacted with surprise because, according to what he told me, he never thought this was going to happen, as many know the sir Axel López it did not seek to sell products and equipment, but was sought by a government entity. “
In the United States, the Guatemalan hired a legal firm in the face of the possibility of being tried in that country or simply to respond to any complaint from the Honduran authorities.
the Prosecutor’s Office of Honduras accuses Lopez of overestimating the price of mobile hospitals making profits of more than $ 18 million.