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Honduras's criminal investigation agency (ATIC) has given Libre party coordinator Manuel Zelaya 48 hours to provide details on the party's national structure, reactivating a 2018 complaint Zelaya filed against military authorities after FUSINA labeled Libre-affiliated groups as terrorist cells.

ATIC agents and military intelligence arrested Yasser José Castillo Méndez on charges of aggravated drug trafficking as a member of "Los Castillos," a criminal organization operating in Honduras's southern region.

Julissa Villanueva, former security undersecretary, is outside Honduras and did not appear at the anti-corruption unit ATIC's offices; her legal team requested permission to testify via Zoom.

The Attorney General's Office and financial crimes unit arrested a member of a Colombian-Venezuelan ATM-fraud network in San Pedro Sula and seized 500,000 lempiras (about $20,000) in cash.

The Public Ministry will formally question former Deputy Security Minister Julissa Villanueva and demand she submit evidence she claims to hold about the disappearance of Angie Peña, after she publicly accused the Criminal Investigation Agency (ATIC) of obstructing the investigation.

Investigators from the Public Ministry's Criminal Investigation Agency are conducting a third day of document seizures at the Infrastructure and Transport Ministry, seeking records on hospital construction projects in Olancho, Ocotepeque, and Santa Bárbara initiated under the previous administration.

Financial crimes and customs authorities are inspecting La Ceiba's coastal port following complaints of alleged irregularities in rental contracts.

The Public Ministry's financial crimes unit (ATIC) and police corruption task force (FETCCOP) are investigating irregularities at the municipal government in Jutiapa, Atlántida.

The Public Prosecutor's Office has summoned witnesses to testify in a criminal investigation into Salvador Nasralla on allegations of fraudulent administration of public funds, while a clean-politics unit demands the Liberal Party provide emergency disclosure of Nasralla-linked bank accounts and a mysterious U.S. corporate registration.

An ATIC criminal investigation file from April 2022 documents meetings between then–congressman Víctor Hugo Romero Chinchilla and then–Security Minister Ramón Sabillón and a prosecutor's official, where Romero allegedly sought protection and support while being investigated for murders; Romero was arrested Friday on murder charges.

The Public Transparency and Anti-Corruption Office and its Comayagua regional division are seeking information from Humuya municipality regarding its appointment processes as part of a corruption investigation.

Attorney Ángel Murillo was sworn in as director of the ATIC criminal investigation agency as Honduras undertakes a broader security overhaul, including the new National Crime Agency and a replacement anti-extortion division after five officers died in a botched raid.

A judge conducting case proceedings visited Honduras's criminal investigation agency as part of ongoing judicial work into the 2022 disappearance of Angie Peña, a high-profile missing-person case whose family recently filed a habeas corpus petition with the Supreme Court.

The ATIC (Honduras's anti-trafficking unit) arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a minor.