TEGUCIGALPA, Sept 5, (AP): The head of an anti-corruption organization on Wednesday demanded that Honduran President Xiomara Castro resign after a video was released in which her brother-in-law allegedly received drug money. "This request is based on the serious accusations of drug trafficking that have been presented against your family, whom you have appointed to work in the State,” said Gabriela Castellanos, director of the non-governmental organization the National Anti-Corruption Council, in a public letter to Castro.

The demand comes after a rocky week for Castro, who won the presidency on an anti-corruption campaign. The day before the letter was sent, a video recorded in 2013 was released purportedly showing drug traffickers currently imprisoned in the United States offering more than $525,000 to the president's brother-in-law and congressional leader, Carlos Zelaya.

In this video published in an investigation by journalists at InsightCrime, Zelaya said "half of it will go to the commander,” referring to his brother, former president Manuel Zelaya, Castro's husband and main adviser who was overthrown in a 2009 coup d’état. Castro's brother-in-law Zelaya acknowledged days earlier that he had met with the leader of the drug trafficking organization "Los Cachiros,” who offered to support his party’s campaign that year; 2013 was the same year Castro made her first unsuccessful run for president.

But Zelaya told the press he was unaware the people who attended the meeting were related to drug trafficking. Castro's brother-in-law Carlos Zelaya was among a few family members who resigned from their positions in government after he admitted to having met with a drug-trafficking group in 2013. Zelaya claimed he didn't know the people he met with were narcos and denied taking money at the time. "I fell into a trap, I take responsibility for my actions," Zelaya told press. Zelaya and his son, the former minister of defense, both resigned from their positions as a result.