Bolivian authorities arrested former Interior Minister Arturo Murillo on Thursday after his extradition from the United States, where he had been serving a prison sentence for money laundering, the Interior Ministry said. The 61-year-old was taken into custody upon arrival in Santa Cruz.
Murillo faces multiple charges in Bolivia, including an eight-year sentence in a 2019 case over the irregular purchase of tear gas from Ecuador, which allegedly cost the state more than $2.3 million. He was first detained in the U.S. in 2021 on accusations of taking bribes from a Florida-based company and was sentenced there to six years in prison in 2023.
