A Marietta businessman was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar bribery and money laundering scheme to secure contracts with the Honduran government, officials at the U.S. Department of Justice wrote in a press release.
Carl Alan Zaglin, 70, of Marietta, Georgia, was also ordered to forfeit more than $2 million following his conviction in September on charges tied to a nearly five-year conspiracy to bribe Honduran officials, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.
According to court documents and trial evidence, Zaglin — the owner and CEO of Atlanco LLC, a Georgia-based supplier of law enforcement uniforms and gear — paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to officials at TASA, a Honduran government agency responsible for procuring goods for the country’s National Police…