NEW YORK, USA.- The lawyer of Tony Hernandez, Brother of the president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, Said Friday that the allegations of United States against your client for drug trafficking they are a clear attempt to involve the president and intervene in Honduras to change the government of the Central American country.
Peter Brill wrote this opinion in a statement addressed to a judge, four days before he sentenced Tony Hernández to New York for drug trafficking.
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During the trial of Tony Hernandez a 2019, the fiscal they accused President Hernandez of having accepted bribes from drug traffickers for financial his presidential campaign. The most explosive charge was to claim that the bribes included one for a million dollars from the Mexican drug lord Joaquín. “El Chapo “Guzmán.
Brill said that by stopping and accusing the president’s brother in a clear attempt to implicate the president, the United States attempted to rape “Sovereignty” of Honduras.
“This case is another in a long line of foreign policy intervention mishaps carried out by the U.S. government, this time to change a regime at the highest levels in Honduras,” Brill wrote.
The lawyer also said his client “was arrested and charged on foreign soil, by a foreign power, for crimes he allegedly committed in his own country.”
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“The days when the United States acts as the world’s police are not over,” he added.
Prosecutors in the case have assured that Tony Hernandez should be sentenced to life imprisonment to lead “a state-favored drug trafficking criminal association” along with President Hernandez.
They also want Tony Hernandez return $ 138,500,000 of “blood money” product from your drug trafficking operations, and pay an additional fine for $ 10 million.
“Between 2004 and 2019, the defendant insured and distributed millions of dollars in drug trafficking bribes to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras Porfirio Lobo Sosa and other politicians related to the National Party of Honduras“Prosecutors said.
Joan Orlando Hernández has repeatedly refused to have any links with drug trafficking and does not face charges. Wolf Sosa has also denied it.
the judge Kevin Castel, Who will sentence Tony Hernandez on Tuesday, has just presided over a trial in Geovanny Fonts Ramirez, A Honduran accused of drug trafficking and possession of weapons. The name of President Hernandez also appeared many times in this trial due to the insistence of prosecutors that the president partly financed his political career with drug money.
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