El Salvador courts impose up to 199‑year sentences on organized‑crime leaders

Salvadoran judges sentenced former executives of the ARGOZ corporation to prison terms of up to 199 years for selling illegal land lots and laundering money. Leticia Farfán de Gómez received 199 years, while her children Rodrigo Javier and Natalia Gómez Farfán were each sentenced to 189 years. Other defendants, including Edwin Omar Rivera López and Mónica Iveth Sanabria de Uriarte, received 37 and 13 years respectively, and two legal representatives were sentenced to five years. The court also ordered the perpetrators to finance the regularisation of victims’ properties using seized assets.

In a separate case, the Tribunal Cuarto Contra el Crimen Organizado in San Salvador handed down long terms to members of the Midnight Gangster Locos Salvatruchos (MGLS), an off‑shoot of the MS‑13 cartel. Leader Daniel Isaac Guzmán Peña, alias “el Diabólico”, was sentenced to 43 years, and Alexis Ernesto García Rojas, “el Weekend”, to 30 years for illicit group activity. Eight additional homeboys received 25 years each and one collaborator was sentenced to 20 years. The rulings target organized‑crime networks that operated in several neighborhoods of the capital.