Judge Tegucigalpa approved the extradition of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez (2014-2022) to the United States on Wednesday, calling for drug trafficking and the use of illegal weapons.
The Supreme Court tweeted: “An Indian judge approves a request for extradition made by the District Court of Southern New York to former President Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado.
Melvin Duarte, a spokesperson for the judiciary, said that the appeal can be filed within the next three days, in which case it will be a plenary session of the Supreme Court judge with the final right to speak.
In an extradition request, the United States told Hernandez that “Controlled Substances Import Plan (..)” and “Possession of firearms, including machine guns and sabotage devices, to support conspiracy to import drugs.”
According to this request, between 2004 and 2022, Hernandez “participated in a violent drug trafficking conspiracy and shipped several tons of cocaine sent from Colombia and Venezuela to Honduras by air and sea.”
“This plot transported more than 500,000 kilograms of cocaine to the United States through Honduras.” He adds.
According to US prosecutors who handled the case in New York, the former president received bribes and millions of dollars in profits from several drug trafficking groups in Honduras, Mexico and elsewhere.
“In return, Hernandez protected drug traffickers from investigation, detention, and extradition.” “, he explains.
In 2013, “Hernandez received a profit of approximately $1,000,000 from Joaquín Guzman Laura's drug trade.
New York prosecutors linked the former president to drug trafficking in March 2021 at the trial of his brother's former deputy “Tony” Hernandez, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for this crime.
JOH is a 53-year-old right-wing lawyer known for the initials of his name, who handed over the order to the left-wing Xiao Mara Castro on January 27.
He was president for 8 years, and before that he led the Congress in a position of demonstrating loyalty to the United States in the fight against drug trafficking.
(Including information from AFP)
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