Figueroa is accused of laundering $ 3.7 million in public funds in the presidential administration of convict Elías Antonio Treu.
The Third Court of Instruction of San Salvador sent to trial the former Minister of Public Security, René Figueroa and his wife, Cecilia Alvarenga de Figueroa for the crime of money laundering and assets.
The judge accepted the opinion in its entirety and all the civil and criminal evidence offered by the Prosecutor’s Office and ratified the precautionary measures taken by the defendants. Figueroa will continue under house arrest and alternative measures to pretrial detention by his wife, the prosecutor of the Group Against Impunity of the Prosecutor’s Office noted on the issued resolution.
They were also ratified by the precautionary measures of a patrimonial nature that those prosecuted have as immobilization of financial products and preventive annotations of real estate registered in the National Registration Center (CNR).
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Figueroa is accused of receiving $ 3,757,000 from the company Radiodifusió del Salvador, SA DE CV and the personal account of former President Elías Antonio Treu.
Figueroa’s wife allegedly received $ 4,000 from the company Radiodifusió del Salvador SA de CV and the company Nova Orleans SA de CV,; but in addition it would have received $ 100,000 coming from account number 0025-10.021.923 in the name of Society Radiodifusió del Salvador SA, of CV
“We have presented a strengthened case that proves the crime and the participation of the defendants,” said one of the prosecutors at the end of his speech at the initial hearing against the former official in the management of Treu and his wife held the week past.
He also noted that a large amount of cash in bank accounts, the use of two companies for the purchase of real estate and contracts in installments, advance payments on loans, among other activities they have performed
The defendants bought 6 properties and then sold them. That’s why they made loans that should have been canceled in 25 years, but they repaid them in advance, in these cases, in three years. 12 witnesses who testified against Figueroa and his wife.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, a financial report reveals that the legal income of the former minister and his wife, and reported to the Ministry of Finance, “does not agree with what they have managed.”
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has confiscated three properties in Figueroa with a value of more than $ 645,000 and which were allegedly acquired illegally.
Figueroa was Minister of Justice and Public Security in the presidential term of Elías Antonio Treu, who today is imprisoned for acts of corruption in his management. Photo courtesy of the Prosecutor’s Office @FGR_SV