El Salvador debasement: 'New confirmation' against ex-president

Previous Salvadoran President (Francisco Flores (R) responses inquiries to the congress in San Salvador, El Salvador on January 7, 2014, Mr Flores said Taiwan normally made out checks to the individual who asked for the stores

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El Salvador President Mauricio Funes has said there is new implicating confirmation against previous President Florencio Flores, who is confronting debasement claims.

Mr Funes said prosecutors in Costa Rica discovered ledgers for the sake of Mr Flores.

The previous president had denied under promise having any records abroad.

The legislature blames Mr Flores, who legislated between 1999 and 2004, of abusing trusts gave by Taiwan.

Mr Flores told a congressional board in January that he had gained checks worth $10m (£6.5m) from Taiwan throughout the most recent two years of his presidency.

In any case Mr Flores denied the stores were for his individual utilization. He said Taiwan gave the cash to El Salvador.

"I might want to say that I have never kept a weigh from Taiwan's legislature in any record; that is key for me, to make clear that I have never stored a weigh from Taiwan's administration in any record," Mr Flores advised the congressional board set up to follow the cash.

Anyhow Mr Funes said that Costa Rica "will send the archives of the Flores case" this week.

"As stated by Costa Rican Attorney General [jorge Chavarria] there are ledgers for the sake of President Flores in Costa Rica," said Mr Funes in his radio system, Conversando con el Presidente.

'Support cash'

Mr Flores, from the progressive Arena party, said he had approached Taiwan for gifts on three events.

The first occasion when, he said, it was to help reproduction deliberations after two crushing quakes murdered about 1,500 individuals and left more than 200,000 homeless in El Salvador in 2001.

Mauricio Funes (left) and Salvador Sanchez Ceren (right), 17 March Mr Funes (left) will hand over force on 1 June to his VP, Salvador Sanchez Ceren, who was chosen in a hard challenged decision in March

An alternate time he had approached Taiwan for help in battling pill trafficking, and a third gift was to battle wrongdoing and packs, he demonstrated.

He said that El Salvador delighted in "an advantaged relationship" with Taiwan in light of the fact that it sponsored the Asian nation's participation solicitation to the United Nations.

An alternate Central American pioneer is confronting an investigation into his dealings with Taiwan.

Previous Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) told a court in New York a month ago that he acknowledged $2.5m (£1.5m) in fixes from Taiwan.

He confessed to one check of trick to launder cash and concurred not to bid against any jail sentence between four and six year