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Honduras drugs: President's brother gets life in prison
Published 16 hours ago
AFP
Tony Hernández was arrested at Miami airport in November 2018
A court in the United States has sentenced the brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández to life in prison for drug trafficking.
Former Congressman Juan Antonio "Tony" Hernández was found guilty in October 2019 of smuggling tonnes of cocaine into the US.
Prosecutors said he had bribed law enforcement officials and was also complicit in at least two murders.
President Juan Orlando Hernández called his brother's sentence "outrageous".
Lawyers for Tony Hernández said they would appeal against the sentence.
Who is Tony Hernández?
The 42-year-old served as a member of Congress for the National Party from 2014 to 2018.
He was arrested in November 2018 in Miami on charges that he had used his connections with the government to smuggle cocaine through Honduras to the US.
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56589088