2024-06-13 05:08:38
Most sentence of 12 years in jail, requested by the Legal professional Normal’s Workplace (FGR) for the fugitive former president of justice, Mauricio Funes, for the crime of particular instances of cash laundering.
Within the closing arguments, the general public ministry defined to the Fifth Sentencing Court docket of San Salvador Salvador, that through the trial it introduced ample proof to show that it obtained a small airplane from the Guatemalan businessman Jaime Ramón Aparicio Mejía in alternate for the award. of the venture for a bridge between the districts of San Pablo Tacachico and Nueva Concepción.
The legal case got here to an finish virtually 4 years after it was prosecuted, because the Prosecutor’s Workplace accused Funes in September 2020.
The foreigner gave the plane in order that it may be shared by Miguel Menéndez Avelar, often called “Mecafé” who obtained the minimal sentence of eight years in jail established by article 5 of the Regulation towards cash laundering.
The ministry maintained within the public listening to that the airplane was a present that Aparicio Mejía gave to Funes and his buddy Menéndez Avelar, in order that they may assign it to their firm Servicios Calificados de la Comunicación, SA (Serdelco SA). the development of the San Isidro bridge, on the Lempa River, which connects San Pablo Tacachico, La Libertad with Nueva Concepción, Chalatenango.
The airplane is a Beechcraft King Air 90-TG ADL that the Guatemalan businessman purchased in Miami, United States for $1,000,000 as a way to function it via an organization within the neighboring nation.
The bridge value $8.4 million and development started through the Mauricio Funes authorities, however was inaugurated by Salvador Sánchez Cerén, on July 25, 2017.