NY. Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced Wednesday in New York for permitting drug traffickers to make use of his nation’s navy and nationwide police to assist visitors tons of cocaine into america.
Choose P. Kevin Castel sentenced Hernandez to 45 years in federal jail. A jury discovered him responsible in March in Manhattan federal courtroom after a two-week trial that was carefully watched in his residence nation.
Hernandez claimed his innocence when he was sentenced. He additionally claimed he was wrongly and unfairly 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 america and two firearms-related prices.
Hernandez, 55, served two phrases as chief of the Central American nation of about 10 million folks.
He was arrested at his residence in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, three months after leaving workplace in 2022, and was extradited to america in April of that yr.
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– 2024-07-01 04:05:59
