US prosecutors accuse Honduran president of taking drug money

By Associated Press in New York

Juan Orlando Hernández allegedly took $25,000 in 2013 in exchange for protecting trafficker from law enforcement

US prosecutors have said that the president of Honduras met a drug trafficker in around 2013 and took $25,000 in exchange for protecting the trafficker from law enforcement.

The US attorney’s office for the southern district of New York issued a statement referring to President Juan Orlando Hernández only as a “high-ranking Honduran official” or as “CC-4,” a co-conspirator.

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