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The Attorney General of the State of Honduras, Joel Zelayaurged this Monday the national security organizations and the International Police (Interpol) to execute an arrest warrant against the former president. Juan Orlando Hernandez. The former president, who was imprisoned in a US prison for drug trafficking, He was pardoned last week by President Donald Trump.
“I inform the Honduran people that I have instructed the ATIC (Criminal Investigation Technical Agency) and I also urge the State security agencies and our international allies, such as INTERPOL, to execute the international arrest warrant against former president Juan Orlando Hernández, accused by the money laundering and fraud crimes“said Zelaya on the social network X.
The crimes against Hernández are associated with a million-dollar case that also affected former deputies, businessmen and individuals in a diversion of State resources to finance the political campaign in 2013. The former Honduran president was serving a sentence of 45 years in prison on drug and firearms trafficking charges.
We have been lacerated by the tentacles of corruption and by criminal networks that have deeply marked the life of our country. That is why, within the framework of the International Day Against Corruption, which is commemorated tomorrow, December 9, I inform the Honduran people… pic.twitter.com/8V4cpyrKq2
— Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez (@jaza_hn) December 8, 2025
“We have been lacerated by the tentacles of corruption and by criminal networks that have deeply marked the life of our country,” he added. Zelaya pointed out that his request was made within the framework of the International Day Against Corruption, which is commemorated on December 9.
He also indicated that “the first line of investigation has already been concluded and, after the presentation of the tax demand, the former director of DINAF (the former Directorate of Children, Adolescence and Family) has been captured. Dulce María Villanueva Sánchezfor irregularities committed during his performance as head of that agency.”
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández guarded by police in Honduras
“Our commitment is to truth and justice, as I promised on my first day at the head of this institution,” he emphasized.
Investigators have revealed that between 2010 and 2013, a corrupt network of legislators and other people was woven in Honduras who diverted public funds through private foundations to finance political campaigns, such as the one that brought Hernández to power. whose whereabouts are unknown.
The former president, who was re-elected despite being prevented by the Constitution in elections that were contested and ended with massive protests and the deployment of the Army, is a repudiated figure in his country for all the corruption scandals.
Electoral count
In the case of Juan Orlando Hernández, he was released on November 1 after being pardoned by Trump on November 28, on the eve of the general elections that were held on the 30th of the same month.
The former ruler was captured in Tegucigalpa in February 2022 less than three weeks after leaving power in Honduras, responding to an extradition request from the United States, which was fulfilled in April of the same year.
In June 2024, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison, which he will not serve due to the pardon granted to him by Trump, whom the former president publicly thanked last week.
It was Hernández himself who asked to be pardoned by the American president with a letter praising him and reminded him of the collaboration between both countries during his first term. “If someone sells drugs (in a country), that does not mean that the president should be arrested and put in jail for life,” Trump said about Hernández’s case.
Before announcing the pardon for Hernández, Trump expressed his support for the presidential candidate of the conservative National Party of Honduras, Nasri Tito Asfurafor whom he asked Hondurans to vote.
Asfura leads the slow scrutiny of the general elections with 1,274,997 votes (40.52%), against 1,232,804 (39.18%) of Salvador Nasrallafrom the also conservative Liberal Party.
The presidential candidate of the ruling Freedom and Refoundation Party (Libre, left), Rixi Moncada, remains relegated to third place with 608,139 votes (19.32%), when 97.46% of the minutes have been scrutinized.