On May 29, Mr. Funes was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison because he had negotiated a truce with the “maras,” the gangs that terrorized the population of the Central American country, during his tenure.
An El Salvador court sentenced the country’s former president Mauricio Funes, exiled in Nicaragua, in absentia to six years in prison for tax evasion, according to a verdict released Wednesday.
This is the second prison sentence imposed by Salvadoran justice this year on the former journalist and TV presenter, who was elected head of state with the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN, left).
On May 29, Mr. Funes was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison because he had negotiated a truce with the “maras,” the gangs that terrorized the population of the Central American country, during his tenure.
That truce had entered into force in 2012 and had the support of the Organization of American States (OAS), which assumed the role of its “guarantor”. It only lasted a few months.
The former head of state was sentenced to eight years in prison for belonging to an “illegal organization” and another six for dereliction of duty.
The 63-year-old Mr. Funes fled in 2016 to Nicaragua, where he was granted citizenship in 2019, which rules out any possibility of his extradition.
Source :Skai
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