Ministerio Publico

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.

Congressman Carlos Umaña criticized the Public Prosecutor's order halting hospital construction nationwide, saying the audit should proceed without stopping work on projects requiring 18 more months to complete.

Eight current and former Central Bank of Honduras employees accused of misappropriation in connection with an 88.6-million-lempira embezzlement linked to former prosecutor Francia Medina will face trial while free, with an initial hearing set for June 18.

Honduras's Special Prosecutor for Tax Crimes has recovered more than L31.9 million (roughly $1.28 million USD) in unpaid taxes from smuggling cases in the northern region.

Prosecutors arrested 11 current and former Central Bank of Honduras employees, including two active managers, on suspicion of 100 counts of embezzlement tied to the systematic theft of public funds over several years.

Lawyers from Colombian President Gustavo Petro's party filed a complaint with Honduras's Public Ministry against former President Juan Orlando Hernández, alleging terrorist association and crimes against humanity based on disputed audio recordings, as forensic analysis of the recordings remains inconclusive.

The Public Ministry says no investigation has been opened into Rony Pacheco, director of the National Statistics Institute (INE), who is also listed as an employee of the National Electoral Council (CNE), pending a report from the Court of Accounts to determine whether his dual roles violate civil-service law.

Nelson Castañeda, security and justice director at the ASJ, said Honduras's Public Prosecutor's Office requires increased funding to improve its capacity to respond to cases.

A young man has agreed to an abbreviated legal procedure in connection with the killing of a resident in Lepaterique, prosecutors announced.

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.

Retired General Roosevelt Hernández, former chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Attorney General's investigation into the flawed March 2025 primary elections is diverting attention from a surge in massacres that has left roughly 1,000 Hondurans dead so far this year.

Honduras's Public Ministry will summon former National Congress president Luis Redondo and four current lawmakers next week as part of an investigation into the former Permanent Commission, with their legal representatives already notified.

Attorneys for Luis Redondo, the former president of Honduras's National Congress, have formally asked prosecutors to provide the complete investigative file — covering alleged abuse of authority and other offenses — before their client gives a statement, arguing he cannot mount a defense without knowing the charges against him.

Honduras's Central Bank said it respects ongoing investigations after prosecutors charged current and former employees with 100 counts of negligent embezzlement tied to a multimillion-lempira theft, with arrests made in Choluteca, Francisco Morazán, and Cortés.

Honduras's Public Prosecutor's Office dismantled a criminal network accused of cyber fraud against a company, stealing more than two million lempiras (about $80,000).

Honduran child-protection prosecutors obtained a judicial detention order against a suspect accused of sexually assaulting a minor in Danlí.

The Western Regional Prosecutor's Office arrested a man accused of sexual assault in Copán as part of a nationwide operation.

Honduras's Special Electoral Crimes Prosecutor has formally asked Armed Forces chief Héctor Benjamín Valerio Ardón to hand over records and sanction reports tied to the alleged late delivery of ballot materials during the March 2025 primary elections.

Congressional Secretary Carlos Ledezma delivered all impeachment records to the Public Prosecutor's office, which will decide whether to formally charge the five officials — including former Attorney General Johel Zelaya and two electoral tribunal members — removed from office in Honduras's first-ever impeachment proceedings earlier this year.

Attorney General Johel Zelaya removed Luis Javier Santos from leading the anti-corruption unit Uferco, reassigning him to a training school, a move former prosecutors warn weakens Honduras's fight against corruption and may serve political interests.