NEW YORK – An accountant witnessed meetings between Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández and a drug trafficker in which they planned the trafficking of cocaine to the U.S., federal prosecutors in New York said Tuesday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob Gutwillig said during his opening statement at the trial of accused Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes Ramírez that the accountant was present when Hernández allegedly said he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos’.” Hernández has previously denied any involvement with drug traffickers.
He has not been charged. The meetings allegedly occurred in 2013 and 2014, Gutwillig said. The accountant, José Sánchez, ran a rice business through which Fuentes Ramírez