Figueroa is accused of laundering $ 3.7 million in public funds in the presidential administration of convicted Elías Antonio Saca.
San Salvador’s Third Investigative Court sent former Minister of Public Security, René Figueroa and his wife, Cecilia Alvarenga de Figueroa, to court for the crime of money and asset laundering.
The judge admitted the opinion in its entirety and all the civil and criminal evidence presented by the prosecutor’s office and endorsed the precautions taken by the defendants. Figueroa remains under house arrest and alternative pre-trial detention measures for his wife, the prosecution group against impunity of the prosecution said of the resolution passed.
They also ratified the defendants’ patrimonial precautions, such as immobilization of financial products and preventive annotations of real estate registered in the National Registry Center (CNR).
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Figueroa is accused of receiving $ 3,757,000 from Radiodifusión de El Salvador, SA DE CV and the personal account of former President Elías Antonio Saca.
Figueroa’s wife is said to have received $ 4,000 from Radiodifusión de El Salvador SA de CV and Nueva Orleans SA de CV; but he would also have received $ 100,000 from account number 0025-10021923 in the name of Sociedad Radiodifusión de El Salvador SA, the CV
“We have presented a robust case that proves the crime and the participation of the defendants,” one of the prosecutors said at the end of his intervention during the first hearing to the former official in management of Saca and his wife who was appointed last week. kept.
He also pointed out that a large amount of cash in bank accounts, the use of two companies for the purchase of real estate and contracts for installment deposits, advance payments of loans, among other activities they have carried out
The defendants bought six properties to sell them later. Before that, they provided loans that should have been canceled in 25 years, but they paid them in advance, in these cases in three years. 12 witnesses who testified against Figueroa and his wife.
According to the prosecution, a financial survey reveals that the legal income the former minister and his wife had, and reported to the Treasury Department, “does not match what they have handled.”
The prosecution has seized three properties of Figueroa valued at more than $ 645,000 that were allegedly obtained illegally.
Figueroa was Minister of Justice and Public Security during the presidential term of Elías Antonio Saca, who is today in prison for corruption in his government. Photo courtesy of the prosecutor @FGR_SV