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During the fourth day of hearings in the trial of drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez, the head of the Cachiros cartel also confessed that, in 2012, he paid $500,000 to Ricardo Alvarez, Hondura's current Vice President.
A Honduran drug trafficker confessed to a U.S. Court on Thursday that he bribed president Juan Orlando Hernández with $250,000 to avoid prosecution in 2012.
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The former leader of the Los Cachiros cartel, Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, said that the money was delivered to the president's sister Hilda Hernández in return for "protection so that the military police and preventive police didn’t capture us in Honduras."
Bribing Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, meeting with the Sinaloa cartel & role of a former Honduran gov't treasurer in drug trafficking.
— Honduras Solidarity (@hondurassol) March 11, 2021
This was DAY FOUR of the trial against Honduran drug trafficker, Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez in NY #Hondurashttps://t.co/gXfl3W7XiW
Juan Orlando Hernández continues to deny any relationship with drug traffickers. However, his brother Juan Antonio Hernández was prosecuted over this charge in the U.S. in 2019.
During the fourth day of hearings in the trial of drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez, the head of Cachiros cartel also confessed that, in 2012, he paid $500,000 to Ricardo Alvarez, Hondura's current Vice President. In exchange, Alvarez would avoid the extradition of Los Cachiros to the U.S.
#FromTheSouth News Bits | Organized crime is behind the massive exodus, Human Rights organizations in #Honduras denounced. #Guatemala pic.twitter.com/ykuBrWOk4P
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) January 20, 2021
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