2024-02-02 11:40:20
A Honduran judge issued a “definitive dismissal” on Thursday in a corruption trial against former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, a judicial spokesperson reported.
“The judge issued a definitive dismissal” in Lobo’s case, said Judiciary spokesperson Melvin Duarte.
Lobo (2010-2014) “is freed from the accusation (because) no type of responsibility was found on him and from this moment” he is acquitted, he added.
In the same trial, former governor Juan Orlando Hernández, who governed two terms (2014-2018/2018-2022) and is currently imprisoned for drug trafficking in the United States, is accused.
However, in the case of Hernández, “nothing can be said because he has not appeared, the process is pending,” Duarte explained.
Upon learning of the sentence, Lobo spoke in local media: “I have nothing to do with that,” said the 76-year-old former president.
He acknowledged that he has been mentioned in the Southern District Court of New York, where his son, Fabio Lobo, was sentenced in 2017 to 24 years in prison for links to drug trafficking.
Former President Lobo’s wife, Rosa Elena Bonilla, was also sentenced in 2017 in Honduras for corruption to 14 years in prison, but received “house arrest.” On October 11, the prosecutor’s office accused Lobo, Hernández and six other former officials.
Both former right-wing leaders were accused of “fraud” and Hernández is also charged with laundering assets of more than 62 million lempiras ($2.5 million).
The scourge of corruption aggravates the situation in this Central American country of ten million inhabitants, where nearly 70% of its inhabitants live in poverty.
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