A senior executive of a hydroelectric dam in Honduras was handed a prison sentence of more than 22 years on Monday for his role in the 2016 murder of renowned environmentalist Berta
The family of a murdered Honduran activist filed a petition with prosecutors in the Netherlands on Tuesday to urge a criminal probe into a Dutch development bank that financed a Honduran infrastructure project linked to her killing. Environmentalist Berta Caceres was organizing to stop a hydroelectric dam's construction on lands of the indigenous Lenca people when she was shot dead in 2016.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The family of a murdered Honduran activist filed a petition with prosecutors in the Netherlands on Tuesday to urge a criminal probe into a Dutch development bank that financed a Honduran infrastructure project linked to her killing.
Dutch bank FMO released millions to build the Agua Zarca dam through an offshore account. Records show a recipient listed as one company and the transfers landing with another.
A senior executive of a hydroelectric dam in Honduras was handed a prison sentence of more than 22 years on Monday for his role in the 2016 murder of renowned environmentalist Berta Caceres.