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== '''Drug trafficking conviction''' ==
== '''Drug trafficking conviction''' ==
On October 13, 2016, the Captain of the Armed Forces Santos Orellana Rodríguez, indicated by the United States of having alleged links with drug trafficking, denounced in a national media that he was offered a million dollars for not reporting on the discovery of a helicopter that supposedly belonged to Tony Hernández and that had drugs. He also said that DEA agents "forced" him to testify against Tony Hernández and Wilter Blanco as those responsible for a plan to assassinate US Ambassador James Nealon.After this, Hernández denied the accusations in a press conference and traveled to the United States in October to give testimony to the Miami Department of Justice. Also in January 2017, he gave statements to the Public Ministry of Honduras.
On October 13, 2016, the Captain of the Armed Forces Santos Orellana Rodríguez, indicated by the United States of having alleged links with drug trafficking, denounced in a national media that he was offered a million dollars for not reporting on the discovery of a helicopter that supposedly belonged to Tony Hernández and that had drugs. He also said that DEA agents "forced" him to testify against Tony Hernández and Wilter Blanco as those responsible for a plan to assassinate US Ambassador James Nealon.After this, Hernández denied the accusations in a press conference and traveled to the United States in October to give testimony to the Miami Department of Justice. Also in January 2017, he gave statements to the Public Ministry of Honduras.
On March 17, 2017, Tony was accused by the former head of the Los Cachiros cartel Devis Rivera Maradiaga, in statements to a New York court, of receiving a bribe in exchange for efforts to settle a debt that the government had with a company money laundering of that cartel. This alleged cooperation between Devis Rivera and Tony Hernández would have occurred between 2013 and 2015. Tony again denied the accusations.