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. The case, which spanned nearly five years, centered on efforts to secure contracts for a Georgia-based manufacturer of law enforcement uniforms and accessories. In addition to the prison term, the defendant was ordered to forfeit more than $2 million.
Court documents show that Carl Alan Zaglin, 70, from Marietta, Georgia, agreed to pay bribes to officials of Comité Técnico del Fideicomiso para la Administración del Fondo de Protección y Seguridad Poblacional (TASA), a Honduran government entity responsible for procuring goods for the Honduran National Police.
“Bribery is theft from the public,” said U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida. “This defendant tried to buy influence, rig contracts, and corrupt a foreign government for his own gain. Today’s sentence makes clear that when you bribe public officials, anywhere in the world, you answer for it in an American courtroom.”
Evidence presented at trial indicated that between March 2015 and November 2019, Zaglin—owner and CEO of Atlanco LLC—arranged payments totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to Honduran officials such as former TASA Executive Director Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno and former TASA Titular Director Juan Ramon Molina. The payments were funneled through Aldo Nestor Marchena, who lived in Boca Raton, Florida at the time and received $2.5 million via sham invoices authorized by Zaglin. In return for these bribes, Cosenza and other officials helped secure contracts worth over $10 million with TASA for uniforms and other supplies intended for the Honduran National Police.
Zaglin was convicted after a trial in September 2025. Marchena, Cosenza, and Molina previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering; Marchena was sentenced to 84 months in prison last month while Cosenza and Molina await sentencing.
The investigation was conducted by Homeland Security Investigations’ Miami Field Office with assistance from the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs as well as authorities in Belize, Colombia, and Spain.
Prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney Eli S. Rubin for the Southern District of Florida along with Trial Attorneys Peter L. Cooch and Clayton P. Solomon from the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section.
The Fraud Section oversees investigations related to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA). More information about these enforcement efforts is available at www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa.
