Fabio Lobo, a son of former Honduran President, Porfirio Lobo, has been given a 24 years imprisonment sentence in an American jail for conspiring to smuggle cocaine & sell it in the United States.
U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield also fined him
$50,000 & ordered him to forfeit $267,000.
She said Lobo had used his connections & abused his
position as the son of a former head of state to seek to profit through drug
trafficking.
"The hefty punishment for Fabio Lobo was meant as a
warning to corrupt members of Latin America's political elite," Schofield said.
According to Seattle Times, Fabio Lobo pleaded guilty in May
2016, confessing he worked with drug traffickers & Honduran police to ship
cocaine into the United States.
Fabio Lobo was arrested in Haiti in 2015 in a joint
operation by US anti-narcotics agents & Haitian police.
His father, who served as president of Honduras between 2010
& 2014, did not defend his eldest son after his arrest, rather he said
Fabio Lobo had to answer the accusations against him.
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