Mexico City, 6 July 2023 (dpa/MIA) - The former president of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, has been sentenced to six years in prison for tax evasion, the country's attorney general's office announced on Wednesday.

The sentence was handed down just over a month after Funes was sentenced to 14 years in prison in a separate trial. In May, the leftist ex-president was found guilty of illegal collusion with criminal groups.

In the most recent trial the former head of state was accused of having evaded around $85,000 in taxes. He was fined around $200,000.

Funes was head of state from 2009 to 2014. He now lives in asylum in Nicaragua, where he holds citizenship. Nicaragua has no extradition treaty with El Salvador.

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