NEW YORK, USA.US prosecutors have requested that some photos showing the president of Honduras be admitted to court, Juan Orlando Hernandez, with people reportedly involved in drug trafficking.
The footage appears to be completely obscured in court documents, but New York Southern District prosecutors say they show CC-4 or co-conspirator number four, identifying the president in a criminal case against some alleged traffickers.
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The Prosecution has asked the judge in those documents Kevin Castel to admit the photos as evidence in the trial of Geovanny Fuentes-Ramírez, a Honduran accused of drug trafficking who was arrested in Miami in March 2020.
The trial is expected to begin on March 8 in Judge Castel’s court in New York, although Fuentes-Ramírez’s lawyer has requested a postponement of at least a week on Wednesday.
Prosecutors have repeatedly identified the Honduran president as CC-4 in multiple court documents, saying he was the winner of the 2013 Honduran presidential election. So far, there are no ongoing proceedings against him. U.S.
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One photo reportedly shows President Hernández with CC-14 and another with CC-3, two people who, according to prosecutors Jacob Gutwillig and Matthew Laroche, are involved in drug trafficking in Honduras. Spokespersons for the prosecution have not disclosed the identities of the two alleged traffickers.
The prosecutors ruled in the court documents that it is important to show the photos during the trial to show that everyone, including the president, knows each other and participates in criminal activities
They assured Fuentes-Ramírez contacted CC-14 via email from prison. Prosecutors later obtained the photos from CC-14’s iCloud and Instagram accounts.
Neither CC-14 nor CC-3 are being detained in any country, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors’ court documents, available in the court’s electronic system, indicate that CC-14 and Fuentes-Ramírez describe the president as “Juancho” in their electronic chats.
For about two years, prosecutors and drug traffickers have accused President Hernández of receiving money from drug traffickers to fund election campaigns and buy delegates’ votes to become president of Congress and later of the country.
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In the latest charges before the trial, prosecutors have said that the president accepted bribes from Fuentes-Ramírez in exchange for the protection of his cocaine lab and that he also agreed to allow the armed forces to assist the trafficker with transporting the drug.
Hernández has repeatedly denied the charges, saying they are based on lies by drug traffickers seeking revenge on him and reducing his sentence in the United States.
The president’s name was also constantly repeated in the trial of his brother Tony Hernández, which was held in the same court in New York in 2019. Tony Hernandez He was found guilty of drug trafficking and is in prison awaiting his sentence.
Avraham Moskowitz, a lawyer for Fuentes-Ramírez, asked on Wednesday to delay the start of the trial for a few days, saying prosecutors in the case gave him recordings of prison calls made in Spanish and e- mails written this week in Spanish that need to be translated and revised.
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