With a majority vote of 13 votes in favor and 2 against, the plenary session of the Supreme Court of Justice ratified on Monday the extradition order against Juan Orlando Hernández, former president of Honduras, who will be tried in the United States.
The Honduran magistrates ratified the resolution taken on March 17 when a judge granted the extradition request sent by the Court of the Southern District of New York.
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Hernández was captured on February 15 at his residence in the capital, one day after Washington sent the request for preventive arrest for extradition purposes to Honduras.
Since then
he has been imprisoned in a police facility.
He was repeatedly mentioned in US prosecutors' indictments against Hondurans allegedly involved in drug trafficking.
In October, a jury convicted and sentenced his brother, "Tony" Hernández, to life in prison for drug trafficking, in a trial that tainted the then president, as prosecutors said the president received funds from drug traffickers to finance his campaigns. elections and buy the votes of deputies to become president of Congress and later of the country.
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In 2019, prosecutors accused the president of using $1.5 million from drug trafficking to win the presidency in 2013.
Juan Orlando Hernández has always declared that the accusations against him by confessed criminals in the United States are revenge for the fight he waged against drug trafficking in Honduras.
With information from AP and
La Prensa