Salvadoran president Antonio Saca and 6 of his associates are waiting for the initial hearing regarding the alleged corruption offenses committed by them of diverting 246 million dollars. Meanwhile they were sent to the police cells.
The defendants are: Saca and his former private secretary Elmer Charlaix, former Secretary of Communications Julio Rank, former Secretary of Youth, Cesar Funes, who are accused of creating a structure that diverted $ 246 million from the government budget to private accounts. In addition Pablo Gómez, Francisco Rodriguez and Jorge Alberto Arteaga Herrera, all of them collaborators of former President Elias Antonio Saca and current employees of the Presidency, are involved.
Saca and his associates will face criminal prosecution under the charges of embezzlement, racketeering and money laundering in the capital’s Fourth Court of Peace.