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Judge orders Salvadoran ex-president to stand trial on corruption charges
Source: Associated Press
Judge orders Salvadoran ex-president to stand trial on corruption charges
Associated Press in San Salvador
Thursday 3 December 2015 22.07 GMT
A judge in El Salvador has ordered former president Francisco Flores to stand trial for allegedly siphoning off $10m donated by Taiwan more than a decade ago.
Flores will face charges of embezzlement of public funds, money laundering and other illicit activities, Judge Miguel Ángel García told him in a long-awaited ruling.
The 56-year-old former head of state, who governed from 1999 to 2004, is accused of misappropriating money Taiwan had given ostensibly to help Salvadoran victims of a 2001 earthquake. He remains under house arrest.
The trial could implicate other members of Flores’s National Republican Alliance party.
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Associated Press in San Salvador
Thursday 3 December 2015 22.07 GMT
A judge in El Salvador has ordered former president Francisco Flores to stand trial for allegedly siphoning off $10m donated by Taiwan more than a decade ago.
Flores will face charges of embezzlement of public funds, money laundering and other illicit activities, Judge Miguel Ángel García told him in a long-awaited ruling.
The 56-year-old former head of state, who governed from 1999 to 2004, is accused of misappropriating money Taiwan had given ostensibly to help Salvadoran victims of a 2001 earthquake. He remains under house arrest.
The trial could implicate other members of Flores’s National Republican Alliance party.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/03/salvadoran-ex-president-francisco-flores-stand-trial-corruption-charges