Honduras prosecutors accuse two ex-presidents of diverting public funds to campaigns
A Honduran special anti-corruption unit indicted two former conservative presidents on Wednesday on charges of fraud for the diversion of over $12 million of public funds into political campaigns, the state prosecutors office said.
Ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is awaiting trial in the United States on drug trafficking charges following his extradition last year, and his predecessor, Porfirio Lobo, were indicted alongside six other former officials including ex-finance minister Wilfredo Cerrato.
The indictment, filed to the country’s Supreme Court, accuses both Hernandez and Lobo of fraud for the diversion of a combined total of some 288 million lempiras ($12 million) to finance political campaigns, as well as money laundering by Hernandez, Carlos Morazan.
The indictments come amid an expansion of the so-called Pandora case, an investigation that has for five years probed some 38 people for corruption – mostly politicians, deputies and former officials. Almost all have been acquitted.
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