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US deports Bolivia’s ex-interior minister to face charges for corruption and protester killings

Arturo Murillo was freed from US prison in June after serving four years in a money laundering case that accused him of taking $532,000 in bribes to help a Florida company win a lucrative contract to sell tear gas to his country’s government.

Just days after Murillo’s release from a Florida prison, he was rearrested and transferred to ICE custody in Miami, where he fought his deportation order for weeks, said a Bolivian diplomat in Washington who spoke on condition of anonymity because th… [3284 chars]

Source: The Boston Globe | Published: 2025-09-04T03:48:09Z

Credit: The Boston Globe

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