TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS.- Given the charges he was subjected to at the trial taking place in New York, United States, against Geovanny Fuentes, the nationalist deputy, Oscar Najera He defended himself before the national media.
The former leader of the “Los Cachiros” cartel, Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, said during his testimony as a witness in the case, that the $ 250,000 bribe he claims paid to the president Juan Orlando Hernandez, was arranged by Óscar Nájera and paid for by his brother Javier Rivera Maradiaga to the president’s sister, Hilda Hernandez In Tegucigalpa, “the purpose of the bribe was to provide protection so that we would not be arrested and my brother and I would not be extradited,” said Devis Leonel.
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For its part, the current legislature for the Colón department said during a phone call to the program Frente a Frente “I was never friends with Ms Hilda Hernández, even though we had the same profession. Oscar Najera He is a man with a clean working life in university classrooms, in my extraordinary jobs and in my political life, I am not going to borrow myself to make a proposal to a president like President Hernández Alvarado, whom I already know more than about . 30 years. When it came to Congress. ”
Moreover, when questioned by the statements of “the cachiro”, he assured that for the first time he would say the following in public and that he did it “kneeling” in front of his wife, his children and his mother that “she (Hilda) got upset every day because I didn’t want to give my account number to the mechanic Hilda Hernandez because he wouldn’t receive a fund that didn’t know where it come from. When they called me to deposit three million and a fraction, I told him I wouldn’t accept money because I’m not used to receiving money that I don’t know where it came from. I only receive money when it comes from bank transactions or from my business, from my farm or from the sale of mules, ‘he explained.
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“And what do you think of me?” Hilda would have replied, according to her version. To which he confirms that he replied, “No, Ms. Hilda, I don’t want to accept money because I don’t want it to get muddy tomorrow.”
Although he says the funds were allegedly intended to finance the political campaign in the Colón department, he did not accept them, as he has even used his capital to support the activities of his political institute since joining as a young man who had recently graduated. from the university.
Nájera stressed that he could be investigated by national and international authorities as he has his IDs, passports, visas, debit cards and they can even empty a phone.
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