Officials in Honduras are seeking the arrest of the country’s former president who was pardoned by Donald Trump.
Juan Orlando Hernández was released from federal prison in the United States last week after Trump pardoned him. Hernández was sentenced last year to 45 years in prison on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
On Monday, Honduras Attorney General Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez announced he had issued an international arrest warrant for Hernández.
In a social media post, Alvarez said he had instructed the government and Interpol to execute the warrant against Hernández, citing charges of money laundering and fraud connected to a case involving his first presidential campaign more than a decade ago, according to the New York Times.
“We have been wounded by the tentacles of corruption and by the criminal networks that have deeply scarred the life of our country,” Zelaya wrote on X.
Hernández’s current whereabouts is unclear.
