They were found guilty of the crime of illicit enrichment. In addition, the ruling also prohibits the former president from holding any public office for ten years.
The first Civil Chamber of Section I of the Center announced on Tuesday afternoon the decision against the former President of the Republic, Elías Antonio Saca, and his wife Ana Ligia in the case of illicit enrichment.
The former president and his wife were sentenced to compensate the state for $ 4.4 million. Antonio Saca must return $ 3.8 million, and his wife, Ana Ligia, must return $ 589,608, according to the Chamber’s decision.
The former president was found guilty of illegally enriching himself with public funds, so both he and his wife must return the funds to state houses.
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In addition, the judgment prohibits the former president from holding any public office for ten years, as well as the payment of procedural costs incurred by the judiciary.
Prosecutors in the case previously claimed that the Probity Section of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) found seven irregularities in deposits made at Saca’s communications companies, known as the Samix radio group, now run by the National Assets Council (CONAB) for a process of extinguishing the domain.
At first, the Prosecutor’s Office charged Saca’s three children, but the Chamber found it inappropriate for them to be charged, as they had not been civil servants and were not subject to law enforcement, under which the former president and former lady were tried. . .
Former President Saca was sentenced in 2018 to 10 years in prison, after judicially confessing that he diverted $ 301 million from public funds with the complicity of three of his closest officials during his administration.
However, the former Salvadoran leader will serve only eight years in prison, as decided on September 28, 2020 by the Second Court of Prison Supervision in a special hearing.
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