Former President Of El Salvador Receives 14-Year Sentence For Gang Talks

[Judi Lynn]

8. 14 Years in Prison for Former Salvadoran President Funes

Published 29 May 2023 (19 hours 17 minutes ago)
by Rahim Volkov



Former President Mauricio Funes, who currently lives in exile in Nicaragua, was tried in absentia due to a legal reform that allows it. May. 29, 2023. | Photo: Twitter/@jatirado


Former Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) was sentenced on Monday by a criminal court in El Salvador to 14 years in prison for crimes committed during his administration, having facilitated a truce with gangs. The Attorney General's Office (FGR) also reported via Twitter that "David Munguía Payés, former Minister of Justice and Security, has received an 18-year prison sentence."

The 63-year-old former Salvadoran president who currently lives in exile in Nicaragua and with Nicaraguan citizenship was tried in absentia due to a legal reform that allows it.

Funes received 8 years for the charge of illicit groups and 6 years for breach of duties, said the Prosecutor's Office, while noting that the sentences and charges were the same for retired general Munguía Payés, who also received 4 years in prison for arbitrary acts.

Between 2012 and 2014, the Funes administration backed an armistice maintained by the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and Barrio 18 gangs, among others, with the aim of reducing the number of homicides.

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