The Honduran justice announced this Thursday that it is investigating the origin of the $68,000 in cash seized from the Colombian senator-elect Piedad Córdoba, who was detained on Wednesday in that Central American country for not declaring the money before boarding a flight to leave the country.
According to local newspapers in that country, the elected senator was questioned this Thursday by Honduran prosecutors.
One aspect that would have caught the attention of the authorities of that Central American country is that Piedad Córdoba would have given three different versions about the origin of the dollars, according to the Honduran newspaper The Heraldwhich cites an anonymous source from the prosecution.
In the first, he said that the money belonged to a Colombian businessman, resident in Tegucigalpa. The second, that she did not know that she was carrying the money when she was arrested. And the third, which was the payment for a consultancy that she had done.
Regarding the Córdoba case, the Honduran Prosecutor’s Office is still carrying out the corresponding verifications, so they have not yet made any determination. Justice is expected to make a decision between this Friday and Saturday.
By the way, the prosecutor’s spokesman, Yuri Mora, told the AFP agency that according to the reforms to the money laundering law, if someone transports a sum greater than that amount and does not declare it, “the money is seized until they can justify”.
“Meanwhile, the person in question can continue with his trip and has those 30 days to justify the lawful origin of the money,” he stressed.
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