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Weekly Report - 25 September 2014 (WR-14-38)

EL SALVADOR: Flores earns dubious accolade

Former president Francisco Flores (1999-2004) has become the first head of state in El Salvador’s history to be imprisoned on corruption charges. Flores turned himself in to the authorities in San Salvador on 5 September after disappearing without trace for the better part of this year (there was speculation he was hiding in Panama). Interpol issued an international request to arrest Flores on 7 May after he was charged with embezzlement, illicit enrichment and disobedience by a San Salvador judge for irregularities surrounding multi-million-dollar donations from Taiwan.

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