San Pedro Sula
Several of the current and former officials of the Central Bank of Honduras (BCH), arrested yesterday in Choluteca, Francisco Morazán and Cortés, must appear today at 1:30 in the afternoon for a hearing defendant’s statement in San Pedro Sula, Cortés.
This occurs after the Public Ministry presented a tax demand against them, attributing to them the alleged commission of 100 crimes of reckless embezzlement related to a millionaire embezzlement.
Among the accused is Arlen Fernando Cerrato Díaz, manager of the BCH in San Pedro Sula, accused of 35 crimes of reckless embezzlement. Virgilio Antonio Villalobo Gálvez, former head of the Operations Division, was also captured, accused of 32 crimes.
Likewise, the case includes Ana Cristina Oliva Cáceres, former manager of the BCH in San Pedro Sula; Aracely O’Hara Guillén and Carlos Fernando Ávila Hernández, who currently serve as managers of the Central Bank in Tegucigalpa; in addition to Alex Geovani Caballero Altamirano, Luis Arturo Avilés Moncada, Edgardo Antonio Álvarez Molina, Horacio Armando Laínez Pineda, Williams Edgardo Arévalo Rodríguez and Marco Tulio Nájera, all linked to operational and administrative areas of the institution.
According to the accusation presented by the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Transparency and Combating Public Corruption (Fetccop), the defendants would have incurred negligent actions in the management and control of public resources, allowing the irregular theft of state funds.
Days ago, the San Pedro Sula Sentencing Court declared Francia Sofía Medina, known in the media as “La Barbie Fiscal”, guilty for being linked to this same network of corruption.
