National police director, fugitive banker among 9 dead in El Salvador helicopter crash
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El Salvador's police director, other top-ranking officials and fugitive banker Manuel Coto were reportedly killed in a military helicopter crash Sunday night.
Coto, the former manager of the COSAVI savings and loan cooperative, had been the subject of an Interpol arrest warrant and one of 32 people implicated in the embezzlement of more than $35 million by the cooperative’s directors and employees.
El Salvador's military in a post on X said the air force helicopter crash occurred in the area of San Eduardo, Pasaquina, La Union. It said the director general of the National Civil Police, Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, and two deputies were aboard.
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