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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:01 PM Apr 2016

Former Guatemalan President Faces Involvement in Five Corruption Cases

Former Guatemalan President Faces Involvement in Five Corruption Cases

Guatemala, Apr 26 (Prensa Latina) The ex-presidential duet of Guatemala (2012-2015), integrated by Otto Pérez Molina and Roxana Baldetti, is involved today in at least five cases of corruption and fraud to the detriment of the finances of the State.
Testimonies of effective collaborators and investigations of the Attorney General (MP) and the International Commission Against the Impunity show to the couple like leaders of a criminal network that it was operating of diverse ways in customs, ports, infrastructure and other fundamental sectors of the economy in this Central American country.

Everything points at the conclussion, that even the ascent on behalf of the Patriot Party (PP), was preceded the presidency by the illegal funds cashing for its political campaigns, from commissions contractors, and maneuvers tending to wash or to legalize the money that they were depositing in its personal arks.

According to elements presented by the MP, the National Constructor (Cobasket), the Bank GyT Continental and its insurer, the consortium Blue Oil, as well as the businessman Carlos Gabriel Guerra Villeda, proprietor of the Constructor Del Atlántico: sawmill Miralvalle; between others, they contributed almost a ten million quetzals to the campaign of both.

The Mexican Remigio Ángel González, owner of the television corporation Albavisión, is other of the most generous financiers of the political contest of 2001 of the defenestrados almost on having finished its Government.

More:
http://www.plenglish.com//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4827381&Itemid=1

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Bah, bah. It's been real, signed Otto Pérez Molina.[/center]

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