NEW YORK, USA. – The lawyer for Tony Hernandez, brother of the president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernandez, said the allegations Friday United States against his client drug trafficking They are a clear attempt to involve the president and intervene in Honduras to change the government of the Central American country.
Peter Brill wrote that opinion in a statement addressed to a judge four days before sentencing Tony Hernández New York for drug trafficking.
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During the trial of Tony Hernández in 2019, the prosecutors accused President Hernández of accepting bribes from drug traffickers financial his election campaign for president. The most explosive charge was to get the bribes to include $ 1 million from Mexican drug lord Joaquín. “El Chapo ”Guzmán
Brill said the United States tried to rape by arresting and indicting the president’s brother in a clear attempt to involve the president. “the sober” from Honduras.
“This case is yet another of many setbacks in the US government’s foreign policy, this time to change a top-level regime in Honduras,” Brill wrote.
The lawyer also said his client had been “arrested by a foreign power in a foreign country and charged with crimes he allegedly committed in his own country.”
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“The days when America acted as the world’s police officer are not over yet,” he added.
Prosecutors in the case have assured that Tony Hernández should be convicted life imprisonment for leading “a state-sponsored criminal association of drug trafficking” with President Hernández.
They also want Tony Hernández returned $ 138.5 million of “blood money” proceeds from their drug trafficking operations, and pay an additional fine for it 10 million dollars
Between 2004 and 2019, the defendant secured and distributed millions of dollars in drug trafficking bribes to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras. Porfirio Lobo Sosa and other politicians related to the National Party of HondurasThe prosecutors said.
Juan Orlando Hernández has repeatedly denied having any connection with drug trafficking and is not being prosecuted. Lobo Sosa has also denied it.
Judge Kevin Castel, who will convict Tony Hernández on Tuesday, has just chaired a lawsuit Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez, a Honduran accused of drug trafficking and possession of weapons. President Hernández’s name was also common in that trial, as prosecutors insisted that the president partly fund his political career with drug money.
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