Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Former director of Strategic investments Honduras (Invest-H) y Alex Moraes, former administrative manager of this state institution, were transferred by court decision to National Penitentiary, on Támara, Francisco Morazán, after a judge ruled on Friday this judicial imprisonment against former officials.
Bogran Yes Moraes are being investigated by Public ministry in the case of mobile hospitals and alleged offenses of fraud, misappropriation of public funds and abuse of authority.
Trial
This Friday, both testified before a judge for corruption. This led to their judicial detention. On Saturday, they will both have to testify at 9:00 in the morning. again in front of this entity.
Transfer
From the hotel facilities Corruption courts, after an intense day when communicators flooded the site in search of versions, Bográn and Moraes were transferred, in a minibus, guarded by public security officials, to Támara, Francisco Morazán, region where Marco Aurelio Soto National Penitentiary.
There, they will be admitted if the authorities of this institution sign the transfer request from 1st Infantry Battalion to one of the annexes of the penitentiary.
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OVERVALUATION The National Anticorruption Council estimated that the facilities were overvalued by about $ 32 million and that their actual cost is $ 15 million and not $ 47 million, according to official sources. |
After being summoned to former officials on Thursday, Public ministry formalized the request for a tax order against the respondents, which was accepted by the Honduran court on Friday.
While, Bogran and Moraes they spent the night inside this court, where they were detained in the shelter of police officers Attic. They will be kept in the annex of this penitentiary, located in 1st Infantry Battalion.
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$ 47 million He paid Invest-H to Elmed Medical Systems, between March and April 2020, for seven mobile hospitals, manufactured in Turkey. These, in addition to not arriving in the required and agreed time, were not suitable to operate in Honduras. However, Honduras could not request or terminate the suppliers for lack of contractual guarantees. The institution’s supervisory board described the negotiation as a “big scam”. |
Relatives and legal defense of defendants they ensure that they are innocent and that they are not men of opulence, as, they claim, is projected in the media and public opinion. Moreover, they believe that the investigation has nuances of persecution and has been politicized.
PHOTO: Faces of anguish and pain in the audience of Marco Bográn and Alex Moraes
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Another of the protagonists of the case of mobile hospitals is the Guatemalan Axel López, businessman and legal representative of Elmed Medical Systems, a consortium with which officials Bográn and Invest-H, in March 2020, negotiated the acquisition of facilities to combat covid-19.
The prosecutor’s office has also requested an international arrest warrant against him LopezAlthough no other details were provided, partly due to the lack of cases of claims by the Honduran judiciary regarding foreign nationals.