United States v. Arturo Carlos Murillo Prijic

The defendant, the former Bolivian Minister of Government, was sentenced to 70 months’ imprisonment having received at least $532,000 in bribe payments from a Florida-based company in exchange for helping that company secure an approximately $5.6 million contract in 2019 to provide tear gas and other non-lethal equipment to the Bolivian Ministry of Defense.  The defendant pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering with specified unlawful activity of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).