TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – A Honduran court on Wednesday sentenced the country’s former first lady, Rosa Bonilla, to 14 years for fraud and embezzlement of social program budgets, a judicial spokesman said.
Bonilla, wife of former President Porfirio Lobo, spent about 12. 2 million lempiras (then valued at about $590,000) for low-income youth on non-public credit card payments, their children’s tuition and construction work, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
His lawyer, Juan Berganza, would appeal the conviction.
“Former first lady Rosa Elena Bonilla has been sentenced to 14 years and one month for the crimes of continued fraud and embezzlement of public budget destined for social programs,” Carlos Silva, spokesman for the Supreme Court of Justice, told reporters.
Bonilla had already been sentenced to 58 years in prison in a previous trial, which Honduras’ Supreme Court overturned in early 2020, arguing it was full of inconsistencies.
The Supreme Court ordered a new trial through a lower court, which found Bonilla guilty in March of this year.
(History corrects conversion to USD in paragraph 2 to $590,000 from $590 million. )
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