There is an ongoing inquiry into what caused the crash on Sunday night. It happened following the financier Manuel Coto’s weekend-long abduction in Honduras and his subsequent transfer to Salvadoran police at the border.
Coto, a former manager of the COSAVI savings and loan cooperative, was one of 32 individuals connected to the cooperative’s executives and staff members’ misappropriation of more than $35 million, and she was the target of an Interpol arrest order.
According to a tweet made by El Salvador’s military on X, the air force helicopter crash happened nearby.
Pasaquina, La Union, San Eduardo. It stated that two deputies and Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, the director general of the National Civil Police, were on board.
