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Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said he was illegally detained at the Toncontin International Airport for carrying $ 18,000.
Zelaya told local media: “I do not know the origin of this money, it is clear that someone put my things in it, and I have traveled 400 times and I know that it is not possible to travel with this amount of money.”
The former president emphasized that it is necessary to investigate to know who put that money in his purposes.
Zelaya was arrested at the immigration checkpoint at Toncontin airport after his luggage was searched, and Yuri Mora, a spokesman for the Honduras Attorney General’s office, told Reuters that Zelaya was not being detained.
Mora explained that what happened was done according to the law, and that it will be documented and signed by Zelaya, after which he can easily leave the airport.
The army overthrew Zelaya, who led Honduras from 2006 to 2009 and was an ally of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, and was preparing a referendum for re-election in what his opponents say was a tactic to stay in power.
Zelaya remains active in politics as the leader of the leftist Partido Libertad y Resestacimiento, and his wife ran in the 2013 presidential elections.
