Salvadoran ex-president Saca released after 10-year corruption sentence
Saca completes 10-year term after confessing to diverting and laundering more than $300m in public funds
Elias Antonio Saca, the former president of El Salvador, has been released after serving a 10-year prison sentence for corruption. Saca, 61, arrived at court on Thursday to formally report his release, having fulfilled the terms of a plea deal in which he confessed to diverting and laundering more than $300m from state coffers during his 2004–2009 administration.