Honduran Congress vice-president arrested in corruption case
Honduran Congress vice-president arrested in corruption case
Jul. 04, 2015 | 09:46 PM
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Honduras' Congress vice president Lena Gutierrez arrives at the Supreme Court in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 3, 2015.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras: A Honduran judge has ordered that Congress vice-president Lena Gutierrez, along with her father and two siblings, be placed under house arrest amid a corruption scandal, a court spokesman said on Saturday.
Gutierrez, from the governing National Party, and her family members are accused of defrauding the country's health ministry and falsifying documents.
Honduras issued an arrest warrant for Gutierrez on Tuesday, and she appeared in court on Friday.
She and her family have denied the charges, and say that in 2009, they sold a pharmaceutical company which is accused of selling overpriced and adulterated medicine to the health ministry.
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