A former Bolivian cupboard minister was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in jail in Florida Wednesday after pleading responsible to cash laundering in a bribery scheme, the US Justice Department mentioned.
Arturo Murillo, 58, obtained at the very least $532,000 in bribe funds from a Florida firm for serving to it win a $5.6 million contract to offer tear gasoline and different non-lethal tools to the Bolivian protection ministry.
Murillo was inside minister within the interim right-wing administration of Jeanine Anez, who took over Bolivia’s authorities in 2019 after the ouster of Evo Morales.
He was charged with and pleaded responsible to 1 cost of conspiracy to commit cash laundering on October 20.
Four folks helped Murillo launder the bribe cash by way of US banks, together with one in Miami the place Murillo obtained $130,000 in money funds, the Justice Department mentioned.
The 4 others within the operation pleaded responsible final yr and had been sentenced in June to as much as 42 months in jail.
Murillo confronted as much as 10 years in jail.
