Israeli official faces corruption allegations in Honduras president’s trial
Al JazeeraA witness in the trial accused an unnamed member of the Israeli embassy in Colombia of participating in a cocaine ring. “We worked with officials at the Israeli embassy,” Perez told defence lawyer Raymond Colon in Spanish while on the stand. “The woman who transported money for us from Honduras to Colombia was an official in the Israeli embassy.” Perez, who was affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel, accused the unnamed official of laundering between $100m and $150m between 2008 and 2010. “To launder the money, we moved it in a diplomatic briefcase using the diplomatic passport of an official working at the Embassy of Israel in Colombia,” Perez told the jury. “For the public in the audience,” Sanchez said, “it was impactful to hear that a person in the Israeli embassy would lend themselves to form part of the money-laundering scheme of the Sinaloa cartel.” In his view, the allegations are part of a wider trend of state institutions becoming complicit in the drug trade.
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