By Deutsche Welle
The Prosecutor’s Office presented this Friday at the trial of Juan Orlando Hernandez several notebooks belonging to a criminal in which he wrote down each payment he made, which could be a problem for the former president of Honduras, tried for drug trafficking in New York.
The narco notebooks -which would be the only physical evidence in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office regarding drug trafficking payments to Honduran politicians and officials- were confiscated from the criminal Nery Orlando López Sanabriaalso known as Magdaleno Meza, in 2018, in a Military Police operation in the Department of Cortés (north).
Miguel Reynoso, one of the detectives from the Anti-Drug Trafficking Directorate, declared this Friday at the former president’s trial that the notebooks – along with other documents, weapons, money and jewelry – had appeared in a hidden compartment of one of the vehicles. investigated in the operation against Meza.
The offender He was murdered in 2019 in a maximum security prison in Honduras when he had decided to collaborate with the DEAthe US anti-drug agency.
JOH appears in the narco notebooksaccording to a detective
In his statement before the Prosecutor’s Office, Reynoso assured that they reviewed “the notebooks and made photocopies” in search of “transactions related to drugs and other crimes.”
Among the recipients of money were the names of Tony Hernandez and JOH, the acronym by which the former president of Honduras is known. “The name and what was found caught my attention,” said Reynoso, whose expertise in the handling and security of the documents was questioned by the former president’s defense.
If found guilty of the three charges against him – drug trafficking conspiracy, trafficking and possession of weapons – the former president of Honduras He could be sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prisonas his brother Tony Hernández already does.
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