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(CNN Spanish) --
The elected senator from Colombia Piedad Córdoba was held in Honduras this Wednesday under investigation after she entered the country with some US $ 68,000 that would not have been declared, the National Institute of Migration of the Central American country.
According to the statement, Piedad Córdoba said that the money belongs "to a Colombian businessman who resides in the city of Tegucigalpa, who is being summoned by the Honduran State Prosecutor's Office to give his statement and to follow the corresponding legal procedure." .
The Institute did not provide details of Piedad Córdoba's whereabouts, her origin or destination.
Honduran law allows travelers to carry up to US$10,000 without declaring it to the authorities.
For his part, the spokesman for the Honduran Public Ministry, Yuri Mora, told CNN on Wednesday that all the money will be confiscated from Córdoba and he will be allowed to continue with his trip.
Mora added that he will be given a month to prove the origin of the money and that, if he does not do so, the Honduran State will keep it.
According to the official, the measure is contemplated in the money laundering law approved in 2020 by Congress.
CNN is trying to contact representatives of Piedad Córdoba in Colombia to get more details about it.
The newspaper El Colombiano reported on Wednesday that they contacted Córdoba, who denied that she was being held and added that the money "is the result of a consulting contract."
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-Elvin Sandoval and Wilson Barco collaborated on this report
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