Company Owned by Key Bukele Officials Received $500K from President Funes’ Black Budget

A private company owned by Ernesto Castro —president of the Legislative Assembly and one of the closest advisors to President Nayib Bukele— and his wife Michelle Sol —El Salvador’s minister of Housing— received a total of $504,000 from the black budget of the then President Mauricio Funes, between 2010 and 2011. The company never reported officially the contract in its accounting and it is unclear if Castro and Sol paid taxes for the income.