The former Miss Honduran was sentenced to six years in prison for money laundering

BY ESMOND HARMON April 11, 2021

San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Former Honduran beauty queen Shirley Nicole Velasquez Morales has been sentenced to six years in prison for money laundering.

Her arrest, on October 22, 2019, in Sula, San Point Pedro, along with her husband Gerson Varela Flores, failed to justify the $ 10,000 hidden in a castle in an apartment located on the Costa Verde. Neighborhood. Villa II, an exclusive champetron field.

Trajectory

Shirley Velasquez was a role model on the acclaimed Honduran Sunday television show X-0 da Dinero. In 2012, she won second place in the Miss Honduras beauty pageant, for which she was given the opportunity to participate in Miss Honduras International 2012.

Velasquez Morales appeared in 2012 as the face of Miss International Honduras. In 2019, agents affiliated with the National Interstate Security Force (Pusina) seized all three luxury vehicles – one of these shields – at the couple’s home, in an operation called “Odysseus X.”

Since then, Honduran prosecutors have indicted Velasquez Morales. The result is a fine of L.3,675,000. Also, the house they seized was confiscated. Velasquez Morales has been incarcerated ever since.

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