Tegucigalpa. The Honduran security minister confirmed on Tuesday the arrest in Spain of former police chief Ricardo Ramírez del Cid and his wife, Thelma Carmina Umaña Powell, accused of money laundering. Both are expected to arrive in Honduras on Wednesday to face justice.
“The @PoliciaHonduras through Interpol and in coordination with Interpol of Spain, captures with voluntary surrender the former general director of the Honduran Police Ricardo Ramírez del Cid and his wife,” wrote Minister of Security Gustavo Sánchez on X.
Minister Sánchez said that negotiations for their extradition “began a few weeks ago” and that after their arrival in the country the couple will be presented “before the competent court, for a money laundering trial.”
Ramírez del Cid was the director of the police since December 2011 and in May 2012 he was dismissed after a process of purification initiated by a series of complaints about an alleged network dedicated to drug trafficking, contract killings and car theft that operated within the police.
After his release, his son Oscar was shot dead by hitmen in a well-known restaurant in the Honduran capital. Ramírez del Cid blamed the then police officer Juan Carlos for the crime. The Tiger Bonilla, who was also recently sentenced to 19 years in prison in a New York court for drug trafficking.
“Tomorrow he will be brought before the circuits (courts) of organized crime and corruption. Mr. Del Cid and his wife will be notified of the fiscal requirement (formal accusation) that the Public Ministry presented in 2021 for money laundering,” the spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office, Yuri Mora, told The Associated Press.
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, between 2007 and 2016, Ramírez del Cid made financial transactions worth more than 1.4 million dollars, of which he could not justify more than one million, so several of his assets were seized, including residences, plots of land, two commercial companies, three vehicles and 16 bank accounts.
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– 2024-09-26 01:30:16
