According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the project to be carried out in 2013 was valued at $ 8,487,716.94. Along with Funes, his partner Miguel Menéndez and Jaime Ramón Aparicio Mejía, of Guatemalan origin, are accused.
Another case of alleged corruption adds to the criminal history of former President Mauricio Funes. That day the Attorney General’s Office turned the seventh arrest warrant against him and three other people.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Funes Cartagena; the businessman, José Miguel Antonio Menéndez Avelar (Mecafé) and the legal representative of the Guatemalan company Serveis Calificats de la Construcción, SA (SERDELCO SA)., Jaime Ramón Aparicio Mejía, would be involved in a fraudulent construction project and in which as a gift a plane was delivered.
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The crimes attributed to them are: Special cases of money laundering and activities for Funes Cartagena and Menéndez Avelar, while Cohecho Activo for Aparicio Mejía; according to detail Specialized Unit Against Money Laundering, UECLA.
According to the Public Ministry, the legal representative of SERDELCO SA gave Mauricio Funes and Miguel Menéndez the Beechcraft King Air 90-TG ADL aircraft as a date to be favored with the award of the contract “Construction of San Isidro Bridge over Río Lempa (Km .75.5 LIB31N) ”, Process initiated by the MOP, in March 2013.
This bridge would connect the municipality of San Pablo Tacachico, La Libertad, with Nueva Concepción, Chalatenango.
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According to the investigations, the contract was awarded to the Guatemalan company Serveis Calificats de la Construcción, SA (SERDELCO SA), signing the same under the design and construction modality on October 10, 2013.
The budget for the project design and construction process was in the amount of $ 8,487,716.94.
The determined investigation that Aparicio Mejía, delivered to Messrs. Funes Cartagena and Menéndez Avelar, as given by the aircraft with records -Beechcraft King Air 90- TG ADL- in order to be favored with the award of the contract already described.
Funes Cartagena and Méndez Avelar shared the plane from 2013 to 2016; which was used for family trips to the United States of America, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras and even rented at $ 1,300 an hour.
Because Funes is in exile in Nicaragua, the judge who knows about the process will be notified so that he can carry out the corresponding procedure. Similarly for the Guatemalan, Aparicio Mejía; she will have to be executed by the Judge, as she is currently in prison in her country, facing trial for a similar case.
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Only in the case of Mr. Menéndez Avelar, the National Civil Police was in charge of executing the order. He was summoned to the La Esperanza Penitentiary.
This is the seventh arrest warrant issued by Funes, who lives in asylum in Nicaragua.
The other arrest warrants against him are for the Public Looting case and the theft of $ 351 million during his administration; another for alleged bribes to former prosecutor Luis Martinez in the Corruptela case; in addition to favor the Italian company Astaldi in construction takes the Chaparral; another arrest warrant for revealing the Report of Suspicious Operations in the case of former President Francisco Flores; in addition a fifth ordering by tax evasion; a sixth and most recent, in the case of gangs.