January 4, 2023

The former Minister of Government for Bolivia, Arturo Carlos Murillo Prijic, was sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison after pleading guilty to laundering over $500,000 in bribes through bank accounts based in Miami.  Prijic had received the bribes from a Florida-based company in exchange for helping them secure a $5.6 million contract to provide non-lethal equipment, such as tear gas, to the Bolivian Ministry of Defense.  DOJ

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