Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison for laundering upwards of US$2 million donated by Taiwan during his time in office.
Portillo, who was president of Guatemala from 2000 to 2004, took the money and placed it in US bank accounts. The US charged Portillo with money laundering, and he was extradited from Guatemala in May 2013. He pleaded guilty in March.
According to the foreign ministry, the money had been donated to support educational programs in Guatemala.