TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras.- Who said fear !, exclaimed this Thursday the former president of Honduras (2010-2014), Porfirio Lobo Sosa, after being mentioned by Devis Leonel Maradiaga in the trial of alleged boss Geovanny Fonts taking place in New York, USA.
The leader of Els Cachiros revealed that the Lobo government “gave us several road contracts (…) so the drug money was laundered.”
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During the trial of Tony Hernandez, the U.S. prosecutor’s office said the former president and current president received millions of drug trafficking in bribes and election funding.
Faced with the allegations, “Pepe” used his social media to ask the president of the National Congress, Mauricio Oliva, to support the decree that promotes his son aimed at the said in the US to be investigated.
“Go ahead Dr. Maurici Oliva with supporting the approval of Decree of the deputy Jorge Llop so that all those mentioned in New York are investigated and demand that JOH leave his place not to use the Presidency as a shield. Who said fear! The one who owes nothing fears nothing! “, Wrote the ex-ruler.
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All Honduran presidents since 2006, including the current one, have received bribes from the Los Cachiros cartel in exchange for protection and government contracts to launder drug money, his former leader, Leonel Rivera, said on Thursday. a trial in New York.
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In a shocking testimony in federal court in Manhattan, Rivera explained that the Cachiros gave Hilda Hernandez, sister of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, $ 250,000 in cash in 2012, when he was a congressman and presidential candidate, in exchange of “protection” so that “we would not be captured in Honduras” by either the military or the preventive police.
The bribe also sought “that my brother (Javier) and I would not be extradited to the United States,” and that the government would give the cartel “contracts to launder money from drug trafficking,” Rivera said.
New York’s southern district prosecutors consider the current president of Honduras a “co-conspirator” of alleged drug trafficker Geovanny Fonts in trafficking tons of cocaine United States.
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