Washington/Prensa Latina
A Federal Courtroom within the Southern District of Manhattan in the present day sentenced former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández (2014-2022) to 45 years in jail following his extradition to the US, the place he was tried for drug trafficking.
The sentence is equal to a life sentence, as a result of the previous president is 55 years previous, which implies he’ll spend the remainder of his life in jail.
Hernández despatched a letter to federal district decide Kevin Castel, who’s dealing with his case, asking for the appliance of the minimal sentence established by legislation, that’s, 40 years.
The previous president, from Washington ally to villain, was discovered responsible in March of conspiracy to import cocaine into the US, to own firearms and weapons in the course of the drug trafficking plot.
His brother and former congressman Tony Hernández was sentenced right here in March 2021 to life imprisonment additionally for drug trafficking.
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