Colombians on their way to Peru with $95,800 in cash arrested in Villeda Morales
The Public Prosecutor's Office said it had opened an investigation against the three Colombians "on suspicion of money laundering."
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At least three Colombians, two men and a woman, who were planning to travel to Peru with $95,800 in cash , were arrested at the José Ramón Villeda Morales Airport in La Lima, Cortés, in northern Honduras, the Public Ministry (MP) reported on Wednesday.
The three detainees, who were also carrying an undetermined amount of Colombian pesos, were detected by the Canine Unit of the Directorate for the Fight against Drug Trafficking (DLCN) and agents of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Organized Crime (FESCCO) , of the Northern Region in San Pedro Sula, the institution indicated in a statement.
The arrest took place on Tuesday at around 7:30 p.m. local time, when the three Colombians, identified as Rafael Arturo Solórzano Castillo, Katherin Jimena Veraz Díaz and Mario Andrés Rodríguez Chaparro , were trying to leave the country, hiding the money “in a suitcase wrapped in paper pretending to be clothing ,” the report added.
Investigation against the detained Colombians
He stressed that “the investigation by FESCCO and DLCN agents could indicate that the trio of foreigners may be linked to Colombian structures operating in the country in extortion and illicit drug trafficking to Guatemala, Mexico and the United States.”
“The money that the foreigners were carrying, the men born in Bogotá and the woman in Cali, was intended to be transported to Peru,” the Prosecutor’s Office said.
Finally, the MP indicated that it opened an investigation “for suspicions of the crime of money laundering “, while “the FESCCO court agents prepare the corresponding fiscal requirement.”
