Juan Orlando Hernández said all Honduran political parties accepted drug money, but denied taking bribes himself
, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for enabling drug traffickers to use his military and national police force to help ship tons of cocaine into the United States.“I am innocent,” Hernández said at his sentencing. “I was wrongly and unjustly accused.”
Hernández was in a full green prison uniform as he stood in court with his lawyers. Two US marshals stood behind him.Hernández, 55, was the first former head of state to be found guilty of drug trafficking in the United States since US prosecutors say Hernández worked with drug traffickers as long ago as 2004, taking millions of dollars in bribes as he rose from rural congressman to president of the national congress and then to the country’s highest office.
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