TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS.- The deputy of the National party for the Colón department, Oscar Najera, then responded during testimony of Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, leader of the cartel “Los Cachiros” in the trial of the alleged Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes, state that the legislature acted as a middleman to make the payment of a $ 250,000 bribe to the president effective Juan Orlando Hernandez when he was a candidate to hold that position.
According to Rivera Maradiaga’s testimony, Nájera served as an intermediary between him and the president’s late sister, Hilda Hernandez, to carry out the payment of the said amount, the purpose of which was to guarantee the powerful drug trafficker that he can carry out his criminal actions without fear of prosecution by the authorities.
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Faced with this version, deputy Óscar Nájera made statements about it in an interview with the HRN station, where “he guaranteed before God, for the people and for his family that he would never lend himself as a middleman, a blackmailer.”
“As a legislator, I like to meet humble people, with people from the city. My education is rustic, it comes from the countryside,” added Nájera.
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Nájera concluded his speech by adding that “For my mother, for my children and for the entire Honduran people, I swear to God that it does not take away from my sleep that it is stated that I could be extradited. walk up and down “.
This is not the first time Óscar Nájera’s name has come to light due to alleged links to drug trafficking since earlier Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga He had also mentioned him as one of the employees of the “Los Cachiros” cartel during his testimony in the trial against Tony Hernandez, brother of the president Juan Orlando Hernández.
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