Overview
- Attorney General Johel Zelaya directed Honduras’s investigative agency and urged Interpol to execute an international arrest warrant, posting the order and his statement on X.
- Juan Orlando Hernández was released from a 45-year U.S. sentence after a presidential pardon from Donald Trump last week.
- The Honduran order stems from alleged fraud and money laundering in the Pandora corruption case, with prosecutors previously accusing Hernández of misappropriating more than $12 million in state funds.
- Hernández remains in an undisclosed location in the United States, his wife cites safety concerns about returning, and his lawyer calls the Honduran action a political maneuver.
- Hernández was extradited in 2022 and later convicted in New York for helping move large quantities of cocaine to the United States, a case separate from the Honduran corruption charges.