San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Attorney Marlon Duarte, legal representative of Yani Rosenthal Hidalgo, announced that the Honduran businessman and politician He will arrive in Honduras this Friday after serving a three-year sentence for participating in transactions with money of illicit origin.
Duarte reported that his client would arrive in Honduras in August; information that was confirmed by the head of the Liberal Party bench, Mario Segura, who stressed that the arrival is scheduled for Friday, August 7.
Yani Rosenthal will arrive on a private flight according to has been confirmed.[unsehaconfirmado
Former President José Manuel Zelaya, also confirmed the information through his official Twitter account, expressed “our permanent solidarity.”
In December 2017, the US justice sentenced Yani Rosenthal to 36 months in prison for the crime of participating in monetary transactions with goods of illicit origin.
In addition to the prison sentence, Rosenthal was ordered to forfeit $ 500,000 and pay a fine of $ 2.5 million.
However, Rosenthal also remains designated as a specially designated drug trafficker pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Chiefs Designation Act.
He July 26, 2017, Rosenthal pleaded guilty in Federal Court of Manhattan, New York for conducting monetary transactions in assets derived from drug trafficking crimes between 2004 and September 2015.
Until October 2015, at least 17 Hondurans and about thirty companies were designated in the list of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), with which they became part of the “black list” prepared by the Treasury Department. from the United States.
Only the late businessman José Miguel Handal Larach and Yankel Rosenthal, who returned to Honduras in February 2020 After serving a sentence in the United States, they have been excluded from the payroll.
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