They were found guilty of the crime of illicit enrichment. In addition, the sentence also disqualifies the former president from holding any public office for ten years.
The First Chamber of Civil of the First Section of the Center announced this Tuesday afternoon the sentence against the former President of the Republic, Elías Antonio Saca, and his wife Ana Ligia in case of illicit enrichment.
The former president and his wife were sentenced to repay $ 4.4 million to the state. Antonio Treu must return $ 3.8 million and his wife Ana Ligia must return $ 589,608, according to the House ruling.
The former president was found guilty of illegally enriching himself with public funds, so both he and his wife will have to return the funds to state coffers.
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In addition, the sentence also disqualifies the former president from holding any public office for ten years, as well as the payment of procedural costs generated by the judicial process.
Prosecutors in the case previously claimed that the Probity Section of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) detected 7am irregularities through deposits made at Treu’s communications companies, known as the Samix radio group, now administered by the National Property Council (CONAB) to have a process of extinction of dominion.
At first, the prosecution charged Treu’s three children, but the Chamber found it unreasonable for them to be charged, because they had not been civil servants and were not subject to control of the legislation, under which the former president was tried. already the former lady.
Former President Treu was sentenced in 2018 to 10 years in prison, after judicially confessing to having misappropriated $ 301 million in public funds with the complicity of three of his next officials during his administration.
However, the former Salvadoran ruler will only serve eight years of the sentence, as decided on September 28, 2020 by the Second Court of Penitentiary Surveillance in special hearing.
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