The ex-President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who is wanted by the United States on charges of drug trafficking, has turned himself in to the police.
He was taken from his home in Tegucigalpa by police in a bulletproof vest and handcuffed.
Earlier, a judge issued an arrest warrant for him after the United States requested his extradition.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week that Hernández had been on a list of suspects accused of corruption or undermining democracy in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras for the past year.
Accordingly, he is said to have used the income from corruption and drug trafficking for election campaigns.
allegations denied
Hernández, whose term ended in January, denies the allegations and suspects a revenge plot by drug lords against which his government has taken action.
In the morning, Hernández said in an audio message that he was "ready and willing to work together and to volunteer."
The Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted Monday that an "official notice from the US Embassy" had been sent to the Supreme Court requesting the arrest of an unnamed "Honduran politician" for extradition.
The broadcaster CNN published recordings of the document;
It read there that a “formal request for provisional arrest for the purpose of extradition to the United States of America Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado” was made.
The ex-president's brother, former Honduran Congressman Tony Hernández, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United States in March 2021 for drug trafficking.