Prosecutor Seeks Jail for Five in San Pedro Sula Contract Case

Originally reported June 1, 2026 by HCH

Prosecutors are seeking incarceration for five people accused of irregularities in the awarding of 33 contracts worth nearly 45 million lempiras by the San Pedro Sula municipality, which prosecutors allege circumvented state procurement law by fragmenting contracts.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for HCH, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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