Honduras will extradite between April 20 and 22 to the former president Juan Orlando Hernandez (2014-2022) to the United States, where he will be tried accused of drug traffickingestimated on Wednesday the Minister of Security, Ramón Sabillón.
“Already in the first days of this other week we will be meeting to make the necessary coordination” of the delivery, “between Wednesday and Friday”, of the former president to the United States, the official told the local Radio America station.
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The announcement occurs one day after the 15 magistrates that make up the Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) signed the ruling that ratified the decision to extradite Hernández, adopted by a trial judge on March 16.
With those documents in order, the judge “has ordered the immediate surrender of citizen Juan Orlando Hernández [a Estados Unidos]this with the help of the Secretary of Security, Secretary of Defense and also the Foreign Ministry,” said the spokeswoman for the CSJ, Lucía Villars.
The judge notified the Executive Branch so that proceed with the extradition, required by the Court of the Southern District of New York.
As explained by Minister Sabillón, these days it is rcoordination between the institutions of Honduras will be carried out and the drug enforcement agency
United States (DEA), which will arrive with the plane to take Hernández away. On February 14, the US asked Honduras for the extradition of Hernández, accused of “violent drug trafficking conspiracy (…) the conspiracy transported approximately 500,000 kilograms of cocaine through Honduras bound for the United States”, even before he was president, between 2014 and 2022.
Since that date he has awaited the decision in the prison of a police barracks known as “Los Cobras”in the east of Tegucigalpa.
Hernández’s defense team unsuccessfully appealed the extradition court decision to the Supreme Court and then he tried to prevent it with an amparo appeal, also rejected.
Another official awaiting extradition is the former head of the National Police, Juan Carlos the “Tiger” Bonilla, captured on March 9 accused by the United States of “supervising” the drug trafficking operations of former President Hernández.
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The CSJ is following up with the former chief police the same process of the ex-governor.
“Tony” Hernández, former deputy and brother of the former president, serving a life sentence in the United StatesAlso for drug trafficking.
