Salvadoran AG Favored Former Clients, Top Players in MS-13 Money Laundering Scheme

<p>Rodolfo Delgado, imposed as attorney general by the Nuevas Ideas party in May, 2021, previously worked for two and a half years as defense attorney for one of the main collaborators of the Mara Salvatrucha-13, hotel operator Jorge Manuel Vega Knight. Once installed as attorney general, Delgado chose the judge who exonerated his client as his number two prosecutor, dropped the money laundering and document forgery charges against Vega’s wife, and unfroze their hotels.</p>

Efren Lemus Juan Martínez