His last sentence came just last year in June. He was sentenced to eight years in prison for receiving an airplane as a kickback for awarding a construction contract for a bridge project. He was

Former Salvadoran President Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, better known as Mauricio Funes, died Tuesday local time in exile in Nicaragua where Daniel Ortega's Sandinista regime had granted him citizenship,

He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador’s first modern-day leftist leader in 2009, but he went into exile hounded by corruption charges.

Mauricio Funes, former El Salvador President, died in Nicaragua at 65. Having governed El Salvador from 2009-2014, he spent his later years in Nicaragua to avoid corruption charges back home. Granted citizenship by Daniel Ortega,

SAN SALVADOR : El Salvador’s first leftist president, Mauricio Funes, died yesterday aged 65 in Nicaragua, where he fled in 2016 after being accused of corruption in his country, the Nicaraguan government said.

Mauricio Funes, the former president of El Salvador, passed away in Nicaragua, where he fled in 2016 to escape corruption charges. The Nicaraguan government confirmed his death due to a chronic illness.

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday

Former El Salvador president Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, has died aged 65. Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said Mr Funes had died of a serious chronic illness.

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