DEA interrogation of Geovanny Fuentes: ‘I never contributed to Juan Orlando’s campaign’

Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

The filmed interrogation created by the DEA on the alleged Honduran narco, Geovanny Fuentes, was released on social networks this day, showing the initial responses he gave to US authorities.

The material reveals the reactions Fuentes gave at the time of his arrest in the United States Miami International Airport in the United States.

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The videos show a series of questions the agent identified as Gonzales poses to Fuentes where he denies collaborating with Los Cachiros and even contributing to the campaigns of Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, as addressed in the trial. takes place in to Fuentes in New York.

‘Did you contribute to Juan Orlando’s campaigns?’, The agent asks Fuentes to which he responds “No, from Juan Orlando, never,” he said firmly.

Gonzales Fuentes then consults, “Are you from the other party?” on which he clarifies “No, notice that I gave the vote to Juan Orlando both times, But in these two trials, to put you in brackets, it wasn’t like when I supported Leopoldo Crivelli, who was a little bit more solvent (financially), then I got into a financial downturn and how should I support him? ? “.

When asked if the businessman identified as Jarufe supported the campaigns of the President of Honduras, he quickly responded “Yes, I understand it is. Amounts I don’t know, but I understand he supported it. “

The cop questioning the suspect reconnects him with campaign money by Juan Orlando Hernández but this totally refuses.

Talk about Los Cachiros and businessman Jarufe

Agent Gonzales: Did you know the cachiros?
Sources: Yes, I met them.

Agent: How?
Sources: I met them at a party. I met them both, a brother of theirs named Isidro, talking to them. But I’m telling you that we have never had a conversation with them about an illegal business. Never. And you have them here and you can ask them and of course I met them, I’m not going to lie to you here.

Agent: You know a company called Graneros Nacionales
Sources: Yes, from Don Fuad Jarufe, may he rest in peace, he’s already passed away. He is a highly respected person in Honduras, I worked for him. They are committed to the topic of rice, a very strong company.

Agent: Did you work for that company?
Sources: Many years ago when I was young I became friends with the man and when he died I never heard from them again because I was in a relationship with Don Fuad. He was a gentleman, he was an older man, he died at the age of 86 I think. So when I was young I started working. It was one of my first jobs.

Relationship to Pluto

Agent: Do you know someone they call “Pluto”?
Sources: Yes I did.

Agent: How did you meet him?
Sources: Only in Choloma. He came there to drink and we met there.

Agent: What did “Pluto” do?
Sources: Pluto, we eventually realized he was also involved in drug trafficking. That’s because of people’s comments, not for the record. But it was what all people knew or whether it was at least handled in Choloma.

Agent: Where is “Pluto now?”
Sources: Pluto was killed.

Agent: WHO?
Sources: No idea either. All year round they killed many people there, acquaintances.

Reliable Sobre Chepe

Agent: Do you know Chepe Handal?
Sources: Chepito? Yes of course. I study with me at Dionisio de Herrera when I studied Trade, I talked about that years ago.

Agent: What has Chepito done?
Sources: Well, everyone knows that because he’s jailed in Honduras for drug trafficking, they say stealing a motorcycle is, but of course I know him, Chepito everyone knows him.

Agent: Everyone? I do not know him.
Sources: I mean Honduras.

Agent: Does anyone know him in Honduras?
Sources: Because Don Chepe Handal has also passed away. Jarufe’s cousin, a good friend of Don Fuad Jarufe, had auto parts from Handal and we all went there to buy spare parts for our vehicles. I mean, famous people.

Talk about Jorge “Vaquero”

Agent: Do you know the cowboy?
Sources: I knew the Cowboy. We attacked him.

Agent: Who was the cowboy?
Sources: He was a boy growing up around there in Choloma and then he went there to work with Melvin (Sandres) and then he started hanging out there with I don’t know who. And on some occasions he wanted to threaten a son of mine and at that point we spoke to Melvin and told him what happened because my family, my kids when you know they are very humble people.

So they told me they were going to talk to him. And I knew him, he come from there from the city.

Support for Crivelli

Agent: What was the name of the mayor of Choloma?
Sources: In what year?

Agent: No, years ago, the one you really stood for in politics.
Sources: Could it be Leopoldo Crivelli? Lepoldo Crivelli is current and has been mayor of Choloma for three terms.

Agent: How many years has it been there?
Sources: Crivelli now has three terms, four terms with him.

Agent: How old is each period?
Sources: Four years.

Agent: Very … And you supported him with money?
Sources: Yes, we sometimes support it from within the company. He received between 120 and 140,000 lempiras with checks from my company seven years ago.

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