Brother of Honduran president accused of getting $1 million from 'El Chapo'
New York - Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez took millions of dollars in bribes from drug lords including jailed Mexican kingpin Joaquin"El Chapo" Guzman, a US prosecutor said Wednesday at the opening of his brother's trial.
Richman said that Tony Hernandez belonged to"a state-sponsored organization that distributed cocaine for years" in the US, with the goal of making millions of dollars, adding that corrupt"mayors, congressmen, military generals police chiefs protected his organization.
Defense attorney Omar Malone said Hernandez was the target of violent criminals because his brother's administration authorized the extradition of drug traffickers to the US. Story continuesTony Hernandez, 41, wore a blue suit and appeared calm during the selection process of 12 jurors and six alternates. For security reasons the jurors will only be identified with numbers, as is typical for major drug-trafficking trials.Hernandez's trial comes after Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico's feared Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in February of smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana into the United States.
President Hernandez and Lobo have both rejected the accusations, and neither has been formally charged by the US judicial system.
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