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A Honduran drug clan leader testified in a New York court on Thursday that he paid Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez $250,000 in bribes to secure government contracts as well as protection from capture and extradition to the United States.
“It was for protection so neither the military nor preventative police would arrest me or my brother in Honduras and so we would not be extradited to the United States,” Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga said.
Ex-cartel leader says he bribed Juan Orlando Hernández with $250,000 in exchange for government contracts and protection
The Honduran president has been accused of taking bribes from a major drug trafficker. This is not the first time he has been accused of working with traffickers.
By Sarah Kinosian NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors alleged on Tuesday that Honduras had become a "narco-state" with security forces and politicia...