Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced Wednesday in New York for permitting drug traffickers to make use of his nation’s army and nationwide police to assist visitors tons of cocaine to the USA.
Choose P. Kevin Castel sentenced Hernandez to spend 45 years in federal jail. A jury discovered him responsible in March in Manhattan federal court docket after a two-week trial, which was carefully watched in his house nation.
Hernández claimed to be harmless when he was sentenced. He additionally claimed that he was wrongly and unjustly accused.
The previous president confronted a compulsory minimal sentence of 40 years and as much as life in jail after being discovered responsible of conspiring to import cocaine into the USA and two firearms-related expenses.
Hernandez, 55, served two phrases as chief of the Central American nation of about 10 million individuals.
He was arrested at his house in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, three months after leaving workplace in 2022, and was extradited to the USA in April of that yr.
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