Honduran President Hernandez addresses the nation at the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa on Oct. 3, 2019, denying that he received millions of dollars in bribes from drug lords.
The brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was sentenced to Life in prison by a judge in New York on the 30th for smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. The case also involved Hernandez himself, but the U.S. judicial system has not yet formally prosecuted him.
Hernandez (Juan Orlando Hernandez)’s brother, Juan Antonio Hernandez, was sentenced to life imprisonment in New York. Juan Orlando Hernandez’s brother, Juan Antonio Hernandez, has been imprisoned. Juan Antonio Hernandez, better known as “Tony,” who served as a Honduran congressman from 2014 to 2018, was arrested at the Miami, Florida, airport in November 2018, formally indicted days later and found guilty in October 2019 on four counts, including conspiracy. guilty on four counts, including conspiracy to smuggle cocaine into the United States, possession of a machine gun and making false statements.
Juan Antonio Hernandez, brother of Honduran President Hernandez and deputy of the ruling Honduran National Party, talks to the media after arriving from the United States at Tongue International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Oct. 25, 2016. (ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)
AFP reports that New York Judge P. Kevin Castel said Tony’s life sentence was “fully deserved” given that he smuggled more than 185 tons of cocaine into the United States.
U.S. prosecutors stressed that Tony had “no remorse” and was “a central figure in one of the world’s largest and most violent cocaine trafficking conspiracies.
The prosecution also said that Honduran President Hernandez had received millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers such as Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, Mexico’s top drug lord, who is currently serving a prison sentence in the United States. “Conspiracy” to smuggle cocaine into the United States. But the U.S. justice system has not yet formally prosecuted Hernandez.
Hernandez denied all drug trafficking-related charges and described the trial as a “scandal” and the sentence as “astonishing”, adding that some of the witnesses were convicted murderers and that “the testimony was even accepted and taken seriously, which is really It is unbelievable” and will appeal.
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