TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS.- Three high ex-hierarchs of the National Police are fugitives from justice because of their alleged implications in the money laundering.
The defendants are the ex-commissioners José Orlando Leiva Natarén, Lorgio Oquelí Mejía Tinoco and Ricardo Ramírez del Cid, who had links with organized crime to illegally expand their economic patrimony.
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Investigation indicates that the former commissioner Jose Orlando Leiva Natarén Over an 11-year period, it showed atypical movement, reaching about 913 million lempiras in the financial system, according to EL HERALDO in the fiscal requirement.
“The ex-officer had an unjustified capital increase of 300 million lempiras, of which 282 million lempiras corresponded to the activities of the company called Conar, 15 million lempiras with Leiva Natarén and three million lempiras with his wife,” the indictment said.
Leiva Natarén was indicted in 2018 by the Fiscal Unit for Police Purification Support (UF-Adpol) and his whereabouts have since been unknown.
Information available to UF-Adpol prosecutors indicates that the former commissioner is seeking refuge in Miami, where measures have been taken to arrest him and send him to Honduras.
Another former justice fugitive is the former commissioner Lorgio Oquelí Mejía Tinoco.
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The income analysis to the former police chief justifies no more than 17 million lempiras in his net worth and that is inconsistent with the monthly salary earned between 2012 and 2017.
The investigation shows that the former officer is protected by a senior government official, who has prevented his presentation to the competent court.
According to the warrant against Mejía Tinoco, he points out that between 2012 and 2015 the former police officer was part of a criminal structure that asked transporters for money to move the livestock from Choluteca to Nicaragua without any inconvenience.
The last former police chief to be charged with money laundering was Ricardo Ramírez del Cid, believed to be responsible for the laundering of 26.7 million lempiras.
“From the financial analysis, the Prosecution it identified inconsistencies in its revenues and therefore presented the purchase of goods, commercial companies and financial products, ”said the fiscal unity.
Prosecutors say the former police chief is still in the country, while his defense claims he is a refugee in a European country.
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