Honduras court orders house arrest for US-targeted tycoon

[Judi Lynn]

Honduras court orders house arrest for US-targeted tycoon
AFP
November 26, 2015, 7:53 am



Tegucigalpa (AFP) - A court in Honduras Wednesday ordered house arrest for one of the country's biggest tycoons over suspected tax evasion, adding to his legal woes after being targeted by the US for laundering drug traffickers' money.

Jaime Rosenthal, 79, had his liberty curtailed for suspected "tax fraud and falsifying public documents," the public ministry said on its Twitter account.

A court spokeswoman told reporters the matter had to do with meat imports from Brazil allegedly falsely documented as US meat to avoid duties.

Rosenthal was not in court and received notification of the order in his home in Honduras' second city, San Pedro Sula, where he is said to be in ill health, local media reported.

On October 7, the US Treasury Department announced it was targeting Rosenthal, his son Yani and his nephew Yankel "for their money laundering and drug trafficking activities".

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[MisterP]

1. that's how they roll--get the US to arrest the guy nobody likes for doing everything

that all the other guys are doing: the narco-officers handed over Ollie's kingpin, Noriega was the DEA's favorite Prez (for handing over hundreds of Cali guys. He worked with Medellin)

it's both reinforcing US domination *and* tricking and taking advantage of it!

[Judi Lynn]

2. It does always sound comical when the US gets all huffy about these individual crooks, doesn't it?

A little bogus.

Thanks for your like regarding Matta. Extremely useful, thought-provoking.

[MisterP]

3. one hand never knows what the other's doing

also many of these positions of influence are staffed by goddamn idiots who don't even remember what they wrote down two pages before

and child-murderers and generals who think that America's weakness is this "elections" thing (North; Singlaub)

[Judi Lynn]

4. They are free to practise their perversity and malignancy any and everywhere. n/t

[MisterP]

5. that's what Alan Moore (of all people) noted--there's no central cabal, no bunker

the good American people can crack: what they did (and do) is create a safe space for themselves to run around in, to plot against everyone from the Commie in Jakarta to the Commie (or Papist) in the Oval Office, to sell cocaine and semtex to everyone who'll pay