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The National Anticorruption Council director said the Public Ministry failed to prove its case against former president Juan Orlando Hernández, citing the absence of a key witness and saying Honduras's justice system has lost public trust.

A Honduran court on September 1 dismissed charges against former president Juan Orlando Hernández in the Pandora II case, ruling prosecutors failed to prove he diverted $10.8 million to his 2013 campaign when he led Congress, and ordering his release.

The initial hearing in the Pandora II case against former President Juan Orlando Hernández, accused of fraud and money laundering tied to diverted public funds from 2010–2013, resumes on August 18 after prosecutors presented 49 pieces of evidence.

Constitutional Court Justice Sonia Dubón criticized what she called selective justice in the Supreme Court's handling of former President Juan Orlando Hernández's Pandora II case, following a judge's decision on August 3 to replace his pretrial detention with alternative measures.

The attorney general's office announced it will seek pretrial detention for former president Juan Orlando Hernández at an August 12 hearing, arguing he poses a risk to evidence and claiming L169 million ($6.8 million) in public funds were diverted to political campaigning.

The assigned judge in Juan Orlando Hernández's case for fraud and money laundering declined to continue, saying the investigation no longer involves a sitting high official requiring the Supreme Court's jurisdiction, prompting Hernández's lawyers to appeal and the former president to claim political persecution.

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández landed at Palmerola International Airport on Sunday, July 26, after receiving a US presidential pardon following his narcotics conviction, and now faces a separate Honduran judicial process in the Pandora II corruption case.

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández, freed after a US pardon erased his 45-year drug-trafficking sentence, will return voluntarily to Honduras this Sunday to face domestic charges of fraud and money laundering, after a Honduran judge suspended the international arrest warrant against him.

Honduras's Supreme Court suspended the arrest warrant and international alert against former president Juan Orlando Hernández from July 20 to August 3, when a hearing on fraud and money-laundering charges is scheduled.

Former president Juan Orlando Hernández will return to Honduras in August 2026 to appear before the Supreme Court of Justice as part of ongoing judicial proceedings against him.

The legal representative of former President Juan Orlando Hernández has asked the Supreme Court to revoke the arrest warrant against him, arguing that Hernández is willing to voluntarily submit to judicial proceedings and poses no flight risk.