Judge Tegucigalpa on Wednesday approved extradition to the United States of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez (2014-2022), who demanded to be charged with drug trafficking and illegal use of weapons.
The Supreme Court tweeted: “The Indian judge in the first instance approves the extradition request sent by the District Court for the South of New York to former President Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado.
Melvin Duarte, a spokesperson for the judiciary, said that it can still be appealed within the next three days. In this case, it will be a plenary session of the Supreme Court judges who will have the final right to speak.
In a request for extradition, the United States asked Hernandez to “conspiracy to import controlled substances (..)” and crimes such as “possession of firearms, including machine guns and sabotage devices, to support a 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 route.”
“This plot transported more than 500,000 kilograms of cocaine to the United States through Honduras.” He adds.
According to US prosecutors handling the case in New York, the former president received millions of dollars in bribes and profits from several drug trafficking organizations in Honduras, Mexico and elsewhere.
“In return, Hernandez protected drug traffickers from investigation, detention, and extradition.” “, he explains.
In 2013, “Hernandez accepted a profit of about $1,000,000 from drug trafficking by Joaquín Guzmán Loera.
New York prosecutors linked the former president to drug trafficking during the trial of his brother's former MP “Tony” Hernandez, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for that crime in March 2021.
JOH is a 53-year-old right-wing lawyer known for the initials of his name, and on January 27 he left an order to the left-wing Xiao Mara Castro.
He was president for 8 years, and before that he led Congress in a position that showed loyalty to the United States in the fight against drug trafficking.
(Including information from AFP)
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