El Salvador: Ex-President Faces Charges

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Former President Francisco Flores will face embezzlement and other corruption charges related to what prosecutors said Wednesday was the misappropriation of at least $5.3 million in loans from Taiwan during his tenure, from 1999 to 2004. The country’s chief prosecutor, Luis Martínez, told a television interviewer that charges had been filed in court against Mr. Flores, who has been summoned to a court hearing on Friday. He has not been seen publicly in several months, but in a hearing in January called by the nation’s Congress, which is also investigating him, he denied any wrongdoing. President Mauricio Funes has said Mr. Flores received $10 million in donations in the final months of his term without accounting for them.