Beyond the connection between San Salvador's police chief and narcotics traffickers mentioned above, El Faro, a digital newspaper, recently released a tape recording in which ARENA's San Salvador director, Adolfo Tórrez, can be heard speaking with fugitive national deputy Roberto Silva, who fled the country with his wife after being accused of narcotics trafficking, corruption and money laundering. In the taped conversation, Tórrez states that for $500,000, he can clear Silva of all charges, and that judges and prosecutors have already been contacted and brought on board. Compounding the scandal is the fact that the national prosecutor, Attorney General Félix Garrid Safie, also an ARENA party member, had access to the taped conversation but dismissed charges against Tórrez.