Jul 22 2009

HeistWatch - Day 1

Day 1 after the Washington Times reported that the chief of staff to impeached Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, Enrique Flores Lanza, may have stolen millions of dollars in cash from the Central Bank of Honduras, three days before Zelaya himself was arrested for treason…
So far, I have found only one newspaper that has even so [...]

Jul 22 2009

Did Zelaya Pull a Bank Heist Before Skedaddling?

The Washington Times reports that Honduran prosecutors have witnesses and a surveillance video indicating that then-President Manuel Zelaya or Chief of Staff Enrique Flores Lanza may have done exactly that.
More precisely, prosecutors claim that on June 24th, somebody went to the Central Bank of Honduras and “withdrew” $2.2 million equivalent in Honduran lempiras; the money [...]