Carl Alan Zaglin was a majority owner and Chief Executive Officer of an unnamed limited liability company headquartered in Marietta, Georgia that, among other things, owned and operated a factory in Honduras that manufactured law enforcement uniforms and accessories. Though the name of company was not disclosed in the case documents, further research indicates that the company was likely Atlanco, Inc.
Aldo Nestor Marchena was a dual citizen of the United States and Peru and a resident of Florida. He controlled a series of Florida-based limited liability companies, and he was related by marriage to Luis Berkman, who was the Vice President of International Sales at Atlanco.
Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno (Cosenza) was a citizen of Honduras and the Executive Director at Comite Tecnico del Fideicomiso para la Administracion del Fondo de Proteccion y Seguridad Poblacional (TASA), which was the Honduran governmental agency responsible for, among other things, procuring uniforms and other goods for the Honduran National Police.
According to the documents in this case, between March 2015 and November 2019, Zaglin, Marchena, and others allegedly agreed to bribe Honduran government officials, including Cosenza, to secure contracts with TASA for the sale of uniforms and other goods for the Honduran National Police worth over $10 million. In all, the alleged conspirators sent over $166,000 to bank accounts controlled by Cosenza and another Honduran foreign official in furtherance of the scheme.
On November 28, 2023, the DOJ filed a five-count indictment under seal in the Southern District of Florida against Zaglin, Marchena, and Cosenza alleging conspiracies to violate the antibribery provisions of the FCPA and to commit money laundering as well as direct violations of the antibribery provisions of the FCPA and money laundering violations. The DOJ unsealed and announced the indictment on December 22, 2023.
On February 18 2025, the trial originally scheduled to begin on April 7, 2025, was continued to April 28, and then on March 24, the trial was again delayed until August 11, 2025, as the implications of President Trump's February 10, 2025, executive order pausing enforcement of the FCPA were weighed. On April 11, 2025, the DOJ authorized the case to proceed.
On June 4, 2025, the DOJ filed a superseding information against Marchena alleging a single count of a conspiracy to commit money laundering. On June 9, Marchena entered into a plea agreement with the DOJ, and he is scheduled to be sentenced on October 28, 2025.
On June 26, 2025, Zaglin filed a motion to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that the indictment failed to allege conduct that met the legal definition of bribery. Rather, he said that the alleged conduct amounted to "the payment of gratuities after an action had been performed." Zaglin further said that the alleged conduct fell was "the sort of overexpansive and abusive enforcement of the FCPA condemned by" President Trump in the February 10 executive order. Thus, Zaglin contends that the indictment fails to state an offense and conflicts with public policy.
This case is ongoing.
