A telecommunications entrepreneur from Colombia was sentenced today to nearly four years in prison in federal court in South Florida, for having paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to officials in Honduras. Jorge Granados, standing next to his attorney, John Wylie, heard Judge Joan Lenard announce his sentence. Afterward Granados hugged his children […]
Jorge Granados, the former chief executive officer of Miami-based telecommunications company Latin Node Inc. (LatiNode), pleaded guilty today to conspiring to pay bribes to government officials in Honduras, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. To date, four former senior executives of LatiNode have pleaded guilty to conspiring to pay bribes […]
Hondutel’s former officials of the State are in national and international publications once again for allegedly receiving bribes from international companies. The new Alcatel-Lucent bribery scandal involving former officials of the Honduran State telephone company, Hondutel, has added a higher profile to the first bribery case of Hondutel’s, in 2007. That case involved the company […]
Hondutel’s former adviser, Oscar Danilo Santos, was accused in the Latin Node case, and has voluntarily presented himself to the Tegucigalpa courts this morning.
The National Anti-Corruption Council (CNA) yesterday once again demanded the Public Ministry (MP) respond in the case of alleged bribery by former officials of LatiNode and the Honduran Telecommunications Company (Hondutel), and in particular, that they disclose the identity of the principal official involved, known as “official A”. It has been rumored that there is […]