A Georgia businessman has been sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a scheme to bribe Honduran government officials and launder money, with the goal of securing business for a manufacturer of law enforcement uniforms based in Georgia. In addition to the prison term, he was ordered to forfeit over $2 million.
Court documents and trial evidence revealed that Carl Alan Zaglin, 70, from Marietta, Georgia, agreed to pay bribes to officials from Comité Técnico del Fideicomiso para la Administración del Fondo de Protección y Seguridad Poblacional (TASA), a Honduran government agency responsible for procuring goods for the Honduran National Police.
Evidence presented at trial indicated that between March 2015 and November 2019, Zaglin—who owned and led Atlanco LLC—arranged hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to be paid to Honduran officials. The recipients included former TASA Executive Director Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno and former TASA Titular Director Juan Ramon Molina. These payments were made through Aldo Nestor Marchena, who lived in Boca Raton, Florida at the time. Marchena received $2.5 million via sham invoices authorized by Zaglin. In return for these bribes, Cosenza and other officials helped secure contracts worth more than $10 million for Atlanco LLC with TASA, including sales of uniforms and related goods for the Honduran National Police.
Zaglin was convicted after a trial held in September 2025. Marchena, Cosenza, and Molina had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to money laundering. In November 2025, Marchena was sentenced to seven years in prison; sentencing is still pending for Cosenza and Molina.
The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations’ Miami Field Office. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs worked alongside authorities from Belize, Colombia, and Spain during the investigation.
Trial Attorneys Peter L. Cooch and Clayton P. Solomon from the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section as well as Assistant U.S. Attorney Eli S. Rubin from the Southern District of Florida prosecuted the case.
“The Criminal Division’s Fraud Section is responsible for investigating and prosecuting FCPA and Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) matters,” according to information provided by the Justice Department. More details about these enforcement efforts are available on their website: www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa.
