Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The Operation Omega launched this morning against cross-border organized crime, the scourge of corruption, the impact of violence and other criminal acts.
The Special Prosecutor against Organized Crime (Fescco) has eight property insurance plans planned, six are real estate and two are trading companies, owned by the American citizen Mark Adrian Warfield, convicted by the Harris County District Court, of three felonies of possession of cocaine for the purpose of distribution, theft and theft of services, the illegal operations of which spread to the country.
A complaint was received against this foreigner, who lived on national territory, and was investigated by Fescco, confirming a series of investments involving the purchase of goods, payments in dollars and the legal origin of the money was unknown. The foregoing arose after the American was arrested and extradited on October 20, 2012 by order of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the crimes of ongoing fraud and evasion.
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On the other hand, after a joint procedure with the criminal investigation technical office (ATIC), the Special Prosecutor’s Office for the prosecution of officials and staff of the judicial sector filed a request against the prosecutor against Germán Othoniel Turcios Escobar, who serves as Francisco Morazán’s Deputy Secretary of Civil Courts and Tribunals, accused of falsifying public documents to allegedly wrongfully favor a defendant with a pay cut.
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On the work of Operation Omega, the investigations of the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Transparency and the fight against public corruption (Fetccop) and the Atic in the municipalities of San Pedro Sula, Santa Cruz de Yojoa and Omoa, Cortés Department, and Macuelizo, in Santa Bárbara, where alleged crimes are verified to the detriment of the treasury and due to the granting of permits and contracts.
Anti-corruption prosecutors will also present allegations for alleged irregularities by employees of the National register of persons (RNP) of Tegucigalpa and documents are seized at the regional office of the same institution in San Francisco, Atlántida.
Meanwhile, the National Fiscal Support Unit (UNAF) will conduct investigative proceedings in various state institutions, with the aim of collecting information on the Copeco-Mitigar project which was developed in the years 2011-2015.
The Special Prosecutor for Ethnicities and Cultural Heritage, for his part, will take criminal action for the crime of abuse of authority against officials of the Property register (IP) of La Ceiba, Atlántida, and for the crimes of fire and environmental damage in Jutiapa Municipality, Atlántida, as a result of damage inflicted on Garífuna communities.
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In addition, an indictment will be filed for the crime of usurpation to the detriment of the Tolupán tribe, Agua Caliente de Reinada, Yoro Department, and about 30 inspections will be carried out, seven of which are in the municipality of Copán Ruinas for damage to the cultural heritage in the Copán Archaeological Zone and in the indigenous Chortí communities of that country. sector.
Likewise, on-the-spot proceedings are continuing against the murder of Lenca’s native leader of La Paz, Felix Vasquez Lopez, in conjunction with the Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against Life (Fedcv).
Other cases brought up by special, regional and local prosecutors, specialized units and operational modules relate to drug trafficking, human trafficking, extortion, murders, femicides, rape, other assaults, family abuse, tax fraud, intellectual and industrial property violations, violations of human rights and environmental crimes.
In short, with Operation Omega, prosecutors from the prosecution service, in a team with the Directorate for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (Dlcn), Atic and several police and armed forces, will try to answer the victims of crime and punish the offenders. of the law, for which a significant number of arrests, searches, seizures and also preventive work is expected.