Former Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes is sentenced to fourteen years in prison for a truce with gangs

The Specialized Sentencing Court C of San Salvador has sentenced former President Mauricio Funes to fourteen years in jail this Monday for the truce agreed with the gangs. In addition, the previous Minister of Justice and Security, David Victoriano Munguía Payés, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

“Sentence him to eight years in jail for the crime of illegal corporations, and 6 years in jail for the crime of breach of duty,” says the specialised decide’s sentence on Funes, suggested by way of the Salvadoran newspaper ‘El Mundo’.

Munguía has been sentenced to 8 years in jail for unlawful corporations, six for the crime of breach of obligation and four more for the crime of arbitrary acts.

The choose bases his ruling on testimonial, expert and documentary proof that he described as beneficial, pertinent and lawful and that proves the fee of the crimes for which the defendants are sentenced.

The  political leaders had know-how and control of the illegal moves that have been accomplished inside the framework of the agreements with the Barrio 18 and Mara Salvatrucha MS13 gangs at some point of 2011 and 2013, the sentence consists of.

Thus, conferences between gangs, visits by means of women to prisons, the access of orchestras to events, transfers of gang individuals to different prisons or the visit of mediators to prisons with out complying with the due protocol were authorized.

The administrators of the prisons “did not have the selection-making electricity to carry out these unlawful actions.” “Everything turned into fully known to the president and the minister,” the textual content highlights.