Honduran President Involved in Cocaine Plot, Prosecutor Says
- President conspired in violent trafficking, U.S. says in court
- Remark made as president’s brother sentenced to life in prison
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The president of Honduras has participated in a violent cocaine trafficking conspiracy, a U.S. prosecutor said at a hearing where the president’s brother was sentenced to life in an American prison.
President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s brother, Juan Antonio Hernandez, received his sentence on Tuesday for conspiring to smuggle almost 200,000 kilograms of cocaine into the U.S., as part of what prosecutors said was a state-backed trafficking operation that netted him nearly $140 million.