A tribunal has dropped charges of fraud and money laundering against former president Juan Orlando Hernández. This decision comes nine months after he was pardoned by Donald Trump and released from a US prison, where he was serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking. Hernández had maintained his innocence throughout.

The former president, who governed from 2014 to 2022, returned to his country in late July and still faced a process for fraud and money laundering. A judge concluded that there was no evidence to support the fraud charge and that it could not be proven that he had received or handled funds.

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