SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Fulfilling a campaign promise, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has moved to create the International Commission Against Impunity in El Salvador, tasked with tackling corruption, along the lines of similar investigative bodies that have operated in neighboring Guatemala and Honduras. Here’s a look at the commission:___WHY WAS IT CREATED? Bukele has estimated that each year some $1.5 billion disappears from government coffers, a sum that is aggravated by $1.5 billion in revenue that international observers say is lost to tax evasion. The accusations of wrongdoing reach the highest levels. Tony Saca, who led the country from 2004 to 2009, is the first former Salvadoran president to be convicted of corruption, for misappropriating some $300 million in funds that ended up in companies or bank accounts of friends and family.

Source: International New York Times December 09, 2019 23:03 UTC