A person who had close relations with the former president of Honduras, was sentenced yesterday Tuesday by the American justice to serve a life sentence for drug trafficking.
In addition to the life sentence handed down to Giovanni Fuentes Ramirez by a Manhattan federal court where he was tried in March 2021, he was also fined $ 152 million for smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States.
Giovanni Fuentes Ramirez is said to have had close ties to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who ousted him late last month and is himself accused of “corruption” by the US government. which the day before yesterday Monday revealed that it decided in 2021 to register him in the black list and to impose a ban on him entering the territory of the USA.
During the trial of Giovanni Fuentes Ramirez, US federal prosecutors accused the former president of helping him smuggle cocaine to the United States, something that Juan Orlando Hernandez has denied.
“The catastrophic course of Fuentes Ramirez (…), who flooded the United States with cocaine, has finally come to an end and he will spend the rest of his life in federal prison,” Manhattan District Attorney Damian Willia commented with satisfaction. according to a press release from the US Department of Justice.
Last March in New York, the brother of former President Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez, a former Honduran MP, was also sentenced to life in prison by a Manhattan federal court, which found him guilty of 185 counts of USA.
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