TEGUCIGALPA.
Three former leaders of the National Police are fugitives from Justice, due to its alleged implications in money laundering.
The defendants are former commissioners José Orlando Leiva Natarén, Lorgio Oquelí Mejía Tinoco and Ricardo Ramírez del Cid, who are accused of having links to organized crime to illegally expand their economic assets.
Investigations show that former Commissioner José Orlando Leiva Natarén, who for an 11-year period showed an atypical move, moving around 913 million lempiras into the financial system, according to tax requirement.
“The former official had an unjustified capital increase of 300 million lempiras, of which 282 million lempiras correspond to the operations of the company called Conar, 15 million lempiras for Leiva Natarén and three million for his wife “, says the indictment.
Leiva Natarén was charged with Tax unit to support the police license (UF-Adpol) in 2018 and since then it is not known where it is.
Information held by prosecutors UF-Adpol reveals that the former commissioner is taking refuge in Miami, USA, where measures have been taken to arrest him and send him to Honduras.
Another former fugitive is former Commissioner Lorgio Oquelí Mejía Tinoco.
The analysis of the income made on the former police chief does not justify more than 17 million lempiras in his assets and this is not in line with the monthly salary earned between 2012 and 2017.
Investigations indicate that the former officer is protected by a senior government official, who prevented him from appearing before the competent court.
According to the order against Mejía Tinoco, he indicates that between 2012 and 2015, former police officer it was part of a structure criminal who demanded money from the carriers so that they could move the cattle without any inconvenience from Choluteca to Nicaragua.
The last former police chief accused of money laundering was Ricardo Ramírez del Cid, who is allegedly responsible for laundering 26.7 million lempiras.
“From the financial analysis, the Public Ministry identified inconsistencies in its revenues and, therefore, presented the acquisition of goods, commercial companies and financial products,” the entity said. fiscal.