On October 28, 2025, Florida resident Aldo Nestor Marchena was sentenced to serve 84 months in prison for his role in an international bribery and money laundering scheme involving Honduran government officials. Marchena previously pled guilty in June 2025 to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. As part of his plea agreement, on October 30, 2025, Marchena was ordered to forfeit $132,656.57 in proceeds derived from his role in the scheme.
According to federal prosecutors, Marchena conspired with Carl Alan Zaglin, the owner and CEO of law enforcement uniform manufacturer Atlanco LLC, to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to Honduran officials with the Comité Técnico del Fideicomiso para la Administración del Fondo de Protección y Seguridad Poblacional (“TASA”), including TASA Executive Director Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno. Between March 2015 and November 2019, Marchena allegedly served as a third-party intermediary who was directed by Zaglin to pay bribes to Cosenza and other officials in order to secure and retain contracts to provide uniforms and equipment for the Honduran National Police and other government agencies.
In December 2023, federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging Zaglin, Marchena, and Cosenza with money laundering and FCPA offenses. After President Trump issued an executive order in February 2025 temporarily pausing all FCPA enforcement actions, federal prosecutors in April 2025 informed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida of their intention to proceed with their FCPA case against the defendants. Following Marchena’s plea in June 2025, in August 2025, Cosenza pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and in September 2025, a jury found Zaglin guilty of one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, one count of violating the FCPA, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Zaglin and Cosenza are currently scheduled to be sentenced on December 3, 2025, and February 20, 2026, respectively.
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