Ex-Honduras First Lady Gets 58 Years in Corruption Case
September 5, 2019
Former Honduran first lady Rosa Elena Bonilla de Lobo leaves court after her Aug. 20 conviction on corruption charges in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The court convicted the former first lady of embezzling about $600,000 in government money between 2010 and 2014, when her husband Porfirio Lobo was president. Bonilla’s sentence was announced Wednesday. (AP Photo/Elmer Martinez)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A Honduran court has sentenced former first lady Rosa Elena Bonilla to 58 years in prison for embezzling about $600,000 in government money between 2010 and 2014, when her husband Porfirio Lobo was president.
Bonilla’s sentence for embezzlement and fraud was at the high end of the possible sentencing range.
The case was originally brought by the Organization of American States’ anti-corruption mission.
Investigators for the nongovernmental National Anticorruption Council have told prosecutors that Bonilla deposited $600,000 in government funds into her personal bank account five days before Lobo ended his four-year term in January 2014.
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Former President Porfirio Lobo Sosa and Rosa Elena Bonilla
Porfirio Lobo
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Son of ex-Honduran president gets 24 years for U.S. drug charge
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The son of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to a U.S. charge of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.
Fabio Lobo, 46, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield in Manhattan federal court. He had pleaded guilty in May 2016, about a year after he was arrested in Haiti in a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration sting.
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Prosecutors said that in 2014, Lobo agreed to help two DEA agents posing as Mexican drug traffickers transport multiple tons of cocaine through Honduras so it could eventually reach the United States.
They said Lobo hoped to profit personally from facilitating drug trafficking through the notoriously violent Central American country, which has long served as a major transshipment point for U.S.-bound cocaine smuggled out of South America.
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Fabio Lobo
