On September 15, 2025, Carl Alan Zaglin, the owner and CEO of Atlanco LLC, was convicted by a federal jury for his role in an international bribery and money laundering scheme. According to federal prosecutors, Zaglin agreed to pay bribes to Honduran government officials with the Comité Técnico del Fideicomiso para la Administración del Fondo de Protección y Seguridad Poblacional (“TASA”) to secure contracts worth more than $10 million for Atlanco, a Georgia-based manufacturer of law enforcement uniforms and accessories. The jury found Zaglin guilty of one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”), one count of violating the FCPA, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. He is currently scheduled to be sentenced on December 3, 2025.
According to court documents and the evidence presented at trial, between March 2015 and November 2019, Zaglin arranged the payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to TASA officials, including former TASA Executive Director Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno (“Cosenza”) and former TASA Titular Director Juan Ramon Molina Rodriguez (“Molina”), to secure contracts with, and receive payments from, TASA, a Honduran government entity that procured uniforms and equipment for the Honduran National Police and other government agencies. According to federal prosecutors, Zaglin directed a third-party intermediary, Aldo Nestor Marchena, to pay the bribes pursuant to sham contracts and fraudulent invoices authorized by Zaglin. Zaglin, Marchena, Cosenza, and other co-conspirators attempted to conceal the scheme by using personal email accounts and encrypted messaging applications to communicate about the payments and referred to the bribes as “commissions” and “fees” in those communications. In furtherance of the scheme, the bribe payments were laundered through Marchena’s U.S.-based front company to bank accounts held for the benefit of Honduran officials in the United States and overseas, according to the DOJ.
Back in December 2023, federal prosecutors unsealed a criminal indictment charging Zaglin, Marchena, and Cosenza with money laundering and FCPA offenses. Molina was separately charged via an information in July 2024 and pleaded guilty in September 2024 to conspiracy to commit money laundering. In February 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order pausing all FCPA enforcement actions for a period of up to six months so that prosecutors could evaluate their merits and determine whether to proceed. In April 2025, federal prosecutors informed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that they intended to proceed with the FCPA case against the defendants. Marchena and Cosenza pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in June 2025 and August 2025, respectively. Marchena is currently scheduled to be sentenced on October 28, 2025, and Cosenza is scheduled to be sentenced on October 31, 2025.
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