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Francisco Flores spent two weeks under house arrest. Photography Getty Images.
Former Salvadoran President Francisco Flores, accused of seizing around US$10 million, was transferred to a common cell from his home, where he served house arrest.
According to Salvadoran media, Flores, who was president between 1999 and 2004, was taken this Friday to a «bartolina» (cell) of the Anti-Narcotics Division.
The transfer was made in the midst of a strong security device.
The former Salvadoran president had been arrested on September 5, when he appeared impromptu before a San Salvador court to respond to suspicions of embezzlement and illicit enrichment for allegedly seizing some US$10 million donated by Taiwan to the Central American country, then that it was affected by two earthquakes.
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Flores ruled the country between 1999 and 2004.
He is also accused of disobedience for not comparing before an investigative commission of the Legislative Assembly last January.
The case became public when the former president, Mauricio Funes, declared on his radio and television program that the United States government was investigating Flores for suspicious movements in his bank accounts.
Before going to court, Flores had been a fugitive for four months. The government suspected that he had taken refuge in Panama.
After he appears in court, a judge terminates his house arrest.
The prosecutor’s office appealed that decision and got it revoked by the first criminal chamber of El Salvador.
