A businessman from Georgia has been sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a scheme that included bribery of Honduran officials and money laundering. The scheme, which lasted nearly five years, aimed to secure business contracts for a company based in Georgia that manufactures law enforcement uniforms and accessories. The individual was also ordered to forfeit more than $2 million.
Court documents revealed that Carl Alan Zaglin, 70, of Marietta, Georgia, agreed to pay bribes to officials from 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—organized payments totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars as bribes to Honduran officials such as former TASA Executive Director Francisco Roberto Cosenza Centeno and former TASA Titular Director Juan Ramon Molina. These payments were made 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 Zaglin and others obtain contracts valued at over $10 million with TASA for uniforms and other goods destined for the Honduran National Police.
Zaglin was convicted after a trial held in September 2025. Marchena, Cosenza, and Molina had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. In November 2025, Marchena received a sentence of 84 months in prison; sentencing dates are pending for Cosenza and Molina.
The investigation was led by Homeland Security Investigations’ Miami Field Office with support from the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs as well as authorities in Belize, Colombia, and Spain.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Eli S. Rubin (Southern District of Florida) along with Trial Attorneys Peter L. Cooch and Clayton P. Solomon (Criminal Division’s Fraud Section) are prosecuting this case.
The Fraud Section is tasked with investigating violations under both the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA). Further information on these enforcement efforts can be found at www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/fcpa.
