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Honduras president, others targets of DEA investigation

By CLAUDIA TORRENS and president of Honduras in
CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN late 2013.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. fed- The document is a July 2015
eral court documents show application to the court to
Honduran President Juan compel Apple, Google,
Orlando Hernández and Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL
some of his closest advisers to give investigators email
were among the targets of header information, but
a Drug Enforcement Ad- not emails’ content, for a
ministration investigation. number of accounts. Two
A document filed by pros- of the accounts are be-
ecutors on Tuesday in the lieved to be of Hernández,
Southern District of New the documents says.
York mentions Hernández There is no indication charg-
as part of a group of in- es have been brought
dividuals investigated by against Hernández.
the DEA since about 2013 Also included in the request
for participating “in large- are the email accounts of
scale drug-trafficking and the president’s sister Hilda
money laundering activi- Hernández, his adviser Ebal
ties relating to the impor- Díaz and his security minis- In this Aug. 6, 2014 file photo released by the U.S. Department of Defense, Honduran President
tation of cocaine into the ter Julián Pacheco Tinoco. Juan Orlando Hernandez, left, listens to U.S. Marine Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern
United States”. Command, during Hern Associated Press andez’s official visit to the command’s headquarters in
Hernández was elected Continued on Page 2 Miami, Florida. Associated Press