The courts found Marcelo Chimirri guilty on charges of abuse of authority, but acquitted him for the crime of fraud. Abuse of authority is a crime punishible from three to six years incarceration. The former Hondutel Manager was found guilty of having authorized the payment of nearly five million Lempiras to two law firms who […]
The trial courts rejected evidence presented by the prosecution against Marcelo Chimirri, former manager of the Honduran Telecommunications Company (Hondutel), this morning. Chimirri is accused of the crimes of abuse of authority, fraud and bribery in the scandal of the U.S. company Latinode. The judge overseeing the case felt that the evidence presented by prosecutors […]
According to the newspaper El Libertador, Rene Novoa, their Editor, was brutally beaten by the National Police and Armed Forces of Honduras yesterday late afternoon… “Once again, a member of this company is a victim of the brutality by the state security agencies which have been operating outside the law. In the past six months […]
A Deputy Commissioner of Police was arrested yesterday in western Honduras with more than five other individuals who were caught after hijacking a cargo of coffee on Sunday. The officer was identified as Fredy Alexander Espinal Montoya, who is assigned to headquarters on the north coast of Honduras. Espinal Montoya is accused of participating in […]
The former manager of the National Electricity Company (ENEE), Rixi Romana Moncada, currently has no lawyer to defend her. According to the brief filed by attorney Rigoberto Portillo, the lawyer said he is abandoning her defense because she has not paid for his counsel. The brief was filed a few days ago, reportedly after Portillo’s […]