In late 2023, the DOJ announced the unsealing of an indictment criminally charging: Carl Alan Zaglin (the owner of a Georgia-based manufacturer of law enforcement uniforms and accessories); Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno (former Executive Director of the Comité Técnico del Fideicomiso para la Administración del Fondo de Protección y Seguridad Poblacional (TASA) a Honduran governmental entity that procured goods for the Honduran National Police); and Aldo Nestor Marchena (a dual citizen of the U.S. and Peru) for their alleged participation in a scheme to pay and conceal bribes to Honduran government officials to secure contracts to provide uniforms and other goods to the Honduran National Police. (See here for the prior post).
The indictment contained allegations regarding: (i) a $4.8 million uniform contract with TASA; (ii) a $5.6 million uniform contract with TASA; (iii) a $480,000 contract for tear gas launchers and ammunition; and (iv) a bid for a $7.5 million uniform contract with TASA.
Zaglin and Marchena were charged with conspiracy to violate the FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions and Zaglin was charged with substantive violations of the anti-bribery provisions. Zaglin, Marchena and Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno (the alleged foreign official) were further charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and the later two individuals are charged with substantive money laundering offenses and engaging in transactions in criminally derived property.
Trial was set to begin on April 7th.
On February 10th, President Trump issued an Executive Order Titled “Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security.”
On February 18th, the DOJ and Defendants agreed to a continuance of the trial and the court moved the trial date to April 28th.
Earlier this week, the DOJ filed the below Status Report.
