Colombian authorities reported that congresswoman-elect Piedad Córdoba is being held at the Comayagua airport that serves the city of Tegucigalpa, in Honduras.
According to the first report, Córdoba Ruiz did not declare that he was carrying $62,770 in cash, reports El Tiempo.
The sources indicate that the senator, elected by the Historical Pact, when subjected to X-ray control, the airport authorities identified the dollars when she was regarding to take a flight to Panama City with the final destination Bogotá.
The authorities point out that Córdoba had entered Honduras on Saturday, May 21. The case remains at the disposal of the Honduran Prosecutor’s Office for the undeclared amount.
It is mandatory at each migratory step – regardless of the country – to declare foreign currency. In the case of Colombia following 10,000 dollars.
EL TIEMPO consulted on what Córdoba might legally face in Honduras and ranges from an administrative handling: declaring and paying the tax for said currencies and the payment of a fine, up to his arrest.
The episode in Honduras adds to a series of questions that have arisen once morest the elected senator in recent months.
Among these, the alleged financing of persons deprived of liberty for her electoral campaign for the Congress of the Republic, which she flatly denied and described as “an entrapment.”
After these events, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro asked Córdoba to withdraw from his campaign.
“I ask Piedad Córdoba to suspend all her activities within the campaign, until she can resolve, hopefully, favorably, the legal charges once morest her,” Petro said at the time.
