Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
the Omega operation launched this morning against cross-border organized crime, the scourge of corruption, the impact of violence and other criminal acts.
The Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Organized Crime (Fescco) It has 8 property insurances, six are real estate and two are companies, owned by the American citizen Mark Adrian Warfield, Convicted by the Harris County District Court, for three felony counts of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, robbery and theft of services, the illicit operations spread to the country.
Against this foreigner, who resided in national territory, a complaint was received that was investigated by Fescco, noting a series of investments with the acquisition of goods, payments in dollars and not knowing the legal origin of money. . The former arose after the American was arrested and extradited on October 20, 2012 by order issued by the Texas State Department of Criminal Justice for the crimes of continued fraud and evasion.
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On the other hand, the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the Prosecution of Officials and Servants of the Justice Sector, after joint proceedings with the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation (Atic), filed a tax claim against Germán Othoniel Turcios Escobar, Who serves as deputy secretary of courts and tribunals of Civil Letters of Francisco Morazán, accused of falsifying public documents for allegedly irregularly favoring a defendant with a paycheck.
Incongruities in the public sector
The work of Operation Omega is accompanied by investigations by the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Transparency and the Fight against Public Corruption (Fetccop) and the Attic in the municipalities of San Pedro Sula, Santa Cruz de Yojoa and Omoa, Department of Cortés, i Macuelizo, In Santa Bàrbara, where presumed crimes are verified to the detriment of the treasury and by the granting of permits and contracts.
Anti-Corruption Prosecutors will also file charges for alleged irregularities of employees of the National Registry of Persons (RNP) of Tegucigalpa and documents are confiscated from the regional office of the same institution in San Francisco, Atlantis.
Meanwhile, the National Tax Support Unit (UNAF) will carry out research in different state institutions, with the aim of gathering information on the Copeco-Mitigar project which was developed in the years 2011-2015.
For its part, the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Ethnicities and Cultural Heritage will prosecute for the crime of abuse of authority against officials of the Property Registry (IP) de la Ceiba, Atlántida, and for the crimes of fire and damage to the environment in the municipality of Jutiapa, Atlàntida, for damage caused to Garifuna communities.
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In addition, an accusation will be filed for the crime of usurpation to the detriment of the tribe tolupán, Hot water of reign, Yoro department, and will carry out some thirty inspections, seven of them in the municipality of Copán Ruins related to damages to the cultural heritage in the archaeological zone of Copán and in the indigenous communities Mayan chortí of this sector.
In situ, the on-site proceedings on the assassination of the Lenca indigenous leader of La Paz are continuing. Félix Vásquez López, In coordination with the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes Against Life (Fedcv).
Other cases filed by special, regional and local prosecutors, specialized units and operational modules have to do with drug trafficking, human trafficking, extortion, homicides, femicides, rapes, other sexual assaults, domestic abuse, tax fraud, property violation intellectual and industrial, human rights violations and environmental crimes.
In short, with Operation Omega the prosecutors of the Public Ministry in team with the Directorate for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (Dlcn), Atic and different police and military forces, will seek to give an answer to the victims of crime and to be punished offenders of the law, so a significant amount of arrests, home violations, seizures and more preventive tasks are expected.