US Department of Justice, money laundering, bribery, Honduras, Georgia, Homeland Security, Miami, Colombia, US government, American, anti-corruptionThe US Department of Justice has announced the sentencing of Carl Alan Zaglin, a 70-year-old businessman from Marietta, Georgia, to eight years in federal prison for orchestrating an extensive bribery and money laundering scheme aimed at securing lucrative government contracts in Honduras. The case, which spanned several years and involved multiple co-conspirators across various countries, exposes yet another example of how corruption undermines public institutions and distorts international markets for private gain.

Zaglin’s conviction follows a federal trial held in September 2025, during which prosecutors presented detailed evidence of his efforts to bribe high-ranking Honduran officials in exchange for millions of dollars in government procurement contracts. According to court documents, Zaglin-who owned and operated Atlanco LLC, a Georgia-based manufacturer of law enforcement uniforms-played a central role in arranging and authorizing hundreds of thousands of dollars in corrupt payments between March 2015 and November 2019.

The scheme revolved around the Comité Técnico del Fideicomiso para la Administración del Fondo de Protección y Seguridad Poblacional (TASA), a key Honduran government agency responsible for acquiring equipment, uniforms, and other supplies for the Honduran National Police. Prosecutors showed that Zaglin agreed to pay bribes to officials at TASA-including its former Executive Director, Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno, and former Titular Director, Juan Ramon Molina-in order to secure preferential access to government contracts.

To disguise the illicit nature of the payments, Zaglin relied on a Florida-based........

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