Salvadoran Prosecutors Accuse Top Prison Bureau Aide of Selling Benefits to Narcos

07/07/2023 26 min

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Episode Synopsis

On May 30, Salvadoran police arrested two Bureau of Prisons officials including Wilfredo Hernández Molina, right-hand man of Vice Minister of Security Osiris Luna, for allegedly charging bribes from drug traffickers for prison benefits. Two years ago the top aide had been named as an accomplice to Luna in the now-shuttered corruption probe called “Operation Cathedral”.

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