However, several officials from his administration say otherwise, and a group of mediators were allowed to meet gang leaders inside and outside prisons. “I have not given up on confronting the judicial process nor proving my innocence.”įunes’s government repeatedly denied approving negotiations with the gangs, which are blamed for violence that has pushed El Salvador’s homicide rates to among the highest in the world. “Asylum only seeks to guarantee protection from persecution,” he tweeted. In August, Salvadorian authorities raided several homes and businesses searching for evidence related to alleged “crimes of embezzlement, illicit negotiations, misuse of funds, illicit enrichment and influence-trafficking”. Salvador prosecutors have also opened an investigation into possible corruption dating to his 2009-2014 government. Investigators argue that he and his family need to justify the origin of more than $700,000 in income. Asylum was granted the following day.įunes, a former journalist who was elected as a member of the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party, is facing a civil prosecution back home for alleged illicit enrichment. It said their lives and physical integrity are in danger as a result of “fighting in favor of democracy, peace, justice and human rights”.įunes said via Twitter that he decided to seek asylum on 31 August “after confirming the political persecution that is being initiated against me”.Īccording to the Gazette, the petition was dated 1 September, the same day El Salvador’s supreme court ordered the release of a list of Funes’s government-funded trips abroad while in office.
The Nicaraguan government’s official Daily Gazette published a notice announcing that Funes, his partner and three children have all been granted asylum. Nicaragua said on Tuesday it has given political asylum to former El Salvador president Mauricio Funes, who has come under scrutiny back home for a truce with gangs during his administration and is also facing multiple legal cases.
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