Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba is detained at the Honduran airport with US$68,000 in cash

Colombian senator-elect piety cordoba was “provisionally withheld” this Wednesday in Honduras for carrying some $68,000 in cash without declaring it to the authorities, reported the National Migration Institute (INM).

the INM “reports (…) that the senator of Colombiacitizen piety cordobahas been provisionally withheld for investigation for the possession of approximately 68 thousand US dollars that were not declared “said a statement from the agency.

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“As stated [por la senadora, los dólares] belong to a Colombian businessman residing in Tegucigalpa, who is being summoned by the Prosecutor’s Office (…) to give his statement and to follow the corresponding procedure “, he added.

The Honduran authorities disclosed photographs of the packages of dollars detected by X-rays at the Palmerola airport, some 50 km north of Tegucigalpa, when the senator was traveling from Tegucigalpa to Bogotá.

Piedad Córdoba was traveling to Panama City with a final destination in Colombia. The case was made available to the Prosecutor’s Office for “undeclared amount.” pic.twitter.com/PHhvZLYvXm

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“I am not detained for absolutely nothing, that [de la detención] It is not true (…) It is a consultancy contract that I have with an important group, we were working for two days (…) and they already paid me and that is all”, the senator told Radio Caracol.

According to international standards, all passengers must declare on the customs ticket when carrying more than 10,000 dollarsas prevention of money laundering.

Cordova He maintains a friendly relationship with the ruling Libertad y Refundación (Libre, left) party and with the coordinator of that political formation, the former president overthrown in 2009, Manuel Zelaya, husband of the current president, Xiomara Castro.

At Castro’s inauguration on January 27, the senator was among the guests.

Source: Elcomercio

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