Honduran exmiss could face eight years in prison for money laundering

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS.- La exmiss Honduras International 2012 Shirley Nicole Velasquez Morales, who was arrested for holding her responsible for money laundering in 2019, pleaded guilty to an abbreviated trial in Tegucigalpa.

The young girl was captured on October 22, 2019 with her husband, Gerson Varela Flores, the couple was in a house in a residential area in San Pedro Sula, northern Honduras.

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At the time, three vehicles from 2010, 2014 and 2016 were seized, as well as the house and the $ 10,000 amount found in packages floating in a reservoir.

The couple were immediately arrested and transferred to prisons in the capital, where the young woman finally decided to acknowledge their participation in the crimes.

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Now Velásquez could face a prison sentence of six to eight, as requested by the special prosecutor against organized crime (Fescco).

Likewise it is Public prosecutor’s office He also requested that he be fined 3,675,000 lempiras and confiscate his property.

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