Convicted drug trafficker testifies that he bribed Honduran president

Ex-cartel leader says he bribed Juan Orlando Hernandez with $250,000 in exchange for government contracts and protection

A convicted drug trafficker and former cartel leader has testified in a New York court that he bribed the Honduran president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, with $250,000 in exchange for government contracts as well as protection from capture and extradition to the United States.

It was for protection so neither the military nor preventative police would arrest me or my brother in Honduras and so we would not be extradited to the United States," Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, a leader of the Honduran drug clan Los Cachiros, testified in the trial of alleged drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez.