New York, United States.
The judge presiding over the alleged Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez suspended the remote connection of the trial after various media outlets violated the prohibition to record parts of the trial.
In an order, Judge Kevin Castel emphasizes that the option to connect to the trial by phone is a “mere courtesy” provided by the robe and assures that the authorities will have an additional room in the Manhattan courts, where the trial has been held since last week, to follow the testimonials.
Likewise, the prosecution has asked the judge to uphold the suspension of the telephone connection to the trial, as two of the witnesses who will go to court will testify using pseudonyms for fear of retaliation.
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“The government found that at least some of the court proceedings that took place on March 11, 2021, were recorded in audio and published on the Internet on various social networking sites and video transmission sites,” said the team of prosecutors who took part in the case.
On March 11, the testimony of Los Cachiros Devis’ former Honduran cartel leader Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, accused Hungarian President, Juan Orlando Hernández, and Vice President, Ricardo Álvarez Arias, of receiving bribes in return for protection. .
During his speech, Rivera, who is being held in the United States, assured that he has worked with the suspects in the cocaine trade for years, and that he also involved former Presidents José Manuel Zelaya and Porfirio Lobo, as well as politicians, police and the military. .
Ramirez sources He is charged with possession of firearms and conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States, which he has pleaded not guilty to.
Opening the trial, the prosecutor’s office defended that the Central American country is a “narco-state” and that the accused is an important part of the supposed machinery of the system.
It’s not the US government’s first time points to Juan Orlando Hernández.
During the trial of the president’s brother, Tony Hernández, held in New York in late 2019, several witnesses already implicated Hernández and other former government officials in alleged bribes in exchange for protection and aid to the drug cartels.