Former director of the National Police of Honduras, Ricardo Ramírez del Cidaccused in his country of money laundering, was arrested in Spain, Honduran Security Minister Gustavo Sánchez reported on Tuesday.
Assets of former police chief Ramírez del Cid seized for alleged money laundering
“The arrest of former National Police Director General Ricardo Ramírez and his wife has been achieved. They are facing charges in a Honduran court for money laundering,” Sánchez stressed to journalists.
The senior official said Ramírez was captured in a joint operation between Interpol of Honduras and Spain.
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According to the official version, between 2007 and 2016 Ramírez made financial movements of around 37.7 million lempiras (1.5 million dollars), of which it has not been able to justify 26.7 million lempiras (1.09 million dollars).
Sanchez said that the wife of Ramirez, Thelma Carmina Umanawho has not been able to justify 1.4 million lempiras (56,402 dollars) of 3 financial transactions for more than 2 million lempiras (80,575 dollars).
Ramírez and his wife will arrive early Wednesday morning at Palmerola International Airport in central Honduras and will then be brought before a court in Tegucigalpa, the Minister of Security said.
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He former head of the Honduran Police He was removed from office in May 2012 by former President Porfirio Lobo (2010-2014), at a time when it became known that an agent was involved in the kidnapping and murder of journalist Alfredo Villatoro.
In 2021, Honduran authorities seized several assets belonging to the former head of the Honduran Police, after identifying “inconsistencies in his income.”
In June 2016, the former Special Commission for the Purification and Transformation of the Honduran National Police recommended that the then Minister of Security, Julián Pacheco, dismiss Ramírez, whose son was murdered in 2014 along with two of his bodyguards.
