Salvadoran ex-president Saca released after 10-year sentence for corruption
Elias Antonio Saca confessed to diverting more than $300m in public funds during his presidency and accepted a plea barg
Elias Antonio Saca, the former president of El Salvador, has been released after serving a 10-year prison term for corruption.
Saca, 61, arrived at court to formally report his release on Thursday after fulfilling the terms of a plea deal in which he confessed to diverting and laundering more than $300m from public funds during his 2004 to 2009 administration.
His lawyer, Mario Machado, said the former president had served his sentence in full without receiving early-release benefits.
In 2019, the former president was found guilty of offering $10,000 to a court employee to obtain information about a case against him, though a judge determined the second sentence to be part of his existing 10-year term.