Former Head of the Central Medical Store of the Ministry of Health, Maritza Isabel Ramírez Vásquez

Maritza Isabel Ramírez Vásquez, former director of the Central Medical Store of the Ministry of Health, is one of six individuals linked to a waste of drugs in the central warehouse and against whom the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office filed suit yesterday.

Ramírez Vásquez is accused of 22 offenses: seven for abuse of authority in the omission of duties derived from her post, seven others for embezzlement of public funds, seven more for use of false documents to the detriment of the public administration, and one subtraction of false public documents to the detriment of the State of Honduras.

The woman’s arrest was conducted by agents of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation (DNIC) and the National Police. Ramírez Vásquez was at the Hospital Tórax where she worked, and taken to the DNIC facilities under the orders of prosecutors.

Also arrested was Marco Daneri Figueroa Vallejo, a resident of the capital district accused of aggravated concealment to the detriment of the public faith. The defendant was serving as inspector of national property for the Hospital School.

The papers against former officials were filed this afternoon by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office.
Also accused are Hernán Gerardo Rodríguez, Héctor Manuel Flores Canales, Cindy Karina Santamaría, and Leonor Bonilla Landa, all fugitives from justice.