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Honduras awarded a 49.7 million lempiras (about $2 million) contract for a national early-alert platform to a consortium including International Technology Group, a company identified as connected to a scheme that siphoned roughly 7 billion lempiras from the social-security institute.

Honduras's new BIEN digital wallet, which interconnects national databases for identity, security, and migration, was developed by a consortium led by International Technology Group (ITG), a firm linked to a multi-million-dollar Social Security contract under investigation and a cancelled customs deal, raising concerns about data protections in a country without a data-privacy law.

The Infrastructure Ministry awarded a Mexican construction company, Prodemex, a multimillion-lempira contract to complete the third phase of the Santa Bárbara General Hospital, but no public contract or transparency-registry trace of the award exists, and the project remains halted under a court order.