Figueroa is accused of laundering $ 3.7 million from public funds in the presidential administration of convicted Elías Antonio Saca.
The third investigative court in San Salvador has sued former public security minister René Figueroa and his wife, Cecilia Alvarenga de Figueroa, for money laundering and money laundering.
The judge accepted the opinion in its entirety and all the civil and criminal evidence provided by the Prosecutor’s Office and ratified the precautionary measures that the defendants have. Figueroa will continue under house arrest and alternative measures to pre-trial detention for his wife, said the prosecutor of the Group against impunity in the Prosecutor’s Office regarding the issued resolution.
Also, the precautionary measures of patrimonial nature that the defendants have were ratified, such as the immobilization of the financial products and the preventive annotations of the real estates registered in the National Registration Center (CNR).
PHOTO: Prosecutor’s Office seizes three residences from René Figueroa, former security minister from Saca
Figueroa is accused of receiving $ 3,757,000 from Radiodifusión de El Salvador, SA DE CV and from the personal account of former President Elías Antonio Saca.
Figueroa’s wife allegedly received $ 4,000 from Radiodifusión de El Salvador SA de CV and Nueva Orleans SA de CV; but would also have received $ 100,000 from account number 0025-10021923 in the name of Sociedad Radiodifusión de El Salvador SA, de CV
“We have presented a robust 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 Saca leadership official and his wife last week.
He also pointed out that a large amount of cash in bank accounts, the use of two companies for the purchase of real estate and contracts for deposits in installments, advance payments on loans, among other activities they carried out
The defendants bought six properties to sell later. For this they made loans that should have been canceled in 25 years, but they paid 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 expertise reveals that the legal incomes that the former minister and his wife had, and reported to the Ministry of Finance, “do not agree with what they did”.
The prosecutor’s office confiscated three properties in Figueroa with a value of more than 645,000 USD and which were allegedly purchased illegally.
Figueroa was Minister of Justice and Public Security during the presidential term of Elías Antonio Saca, who is currently in prison for corruption in his administration. Photo courtesy of the Prosecutor’s Office @FGR_SV