NEW YORK – A Honduran accountant testified Tuesday that he fled Honduras because he felt his life was in danger after witnessing two meetings in which an alleged drug trafficker paid bribes to now- President Juan Orlando Hernández in 2013.
In both meetings, the subject was “protection and receiving drugs,” said José Sánchez, a pseudonym used for his protection. At one Hernández was given $10,000 and at another the amount was $15,000, the accountant said.
The accountant said he was afraid to enter the office where he saw Hernández meeting with a drug trafficker. “I was seeing the candidate for the presidency meeting with a drug trafficker,” he said.