GUATEMALA CITY– A Guatemalan court purchased Monday the apprehensions of Colombia’s attorney general of the United States and a previous Colombian protection priest that led a U.N. anti-corruption objective in Guatemala.
Guatemalan district attorney Rafael Curruchiche, that himself has actually been approved by the USA and various other nations for supposedly conflicting in corruption examinations, had actually asked for that an allures court problem the apprehension orders for Colombia’s leading district attorney Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón, that was the principal of examinations of the Guatemala objective, and Iván Velásquez, that had actually led the objective and later on was Colombia’s protection priest.
Curruchiche stated Camargo and Velásquez had actually dedicated illegal organization throughout their examination right into allurements paid to Guatemalan authorities by Brazilian building and construction titan Odebrecht.
In addition to previous Guatemalan district attorneys dealing with the U.N. objective, Velásquez and Camargo became part of “a criminal framework led by the previous CICIG commissioner,” making use of the Spanish initials of the U.N. objective, Curruchiche affirmed.
Curruchiche had long back concentrated his examination on an agreement the anti-corruption prosecutors had actually authorized with Odebrecht that would certainly supply lowered charges for the firm’s participation in the examination. His manager, District attorney General Consuelo Porras, has actually additionally been sanctioned by the U.S. and other governments for obstructing corruption examinations. Recently, a U.N. expert warned her office was using criminal law to pursue enemies.
Velásquez reacted through X after discovering of the allegations.
” So currently the corrupt Guatemalan attorney general of the United States and her district attorney Curruchiche– marked as corrupt and approved by the USA and the European Union– prolong their mistreatment for Luz Adriana Camargo and me,” Velásquez composed. “My uniformity with the previous authorities therefore numerous Guatemalan people that the Chief law officer’s Workplace has actually required right into expatriation.”
Camargo did not right away reply to an ask for remark.
Amongst those previous Guatemalan district attorneys pushed into expatriation was Juan Francisco Sandoval, that led the unique district attorney’s workplace versus immunity.
Sandoval, that led the Odebrecht examination with assistance from the U.N. objective and has actually been living in exile in the United States, stated last month in a declaration that Curruchiche’s examination was “a sham and a control approach.”
The U.N. objective ran in Guatemala from 2007 to 2019, when then-President Jimmy Morales determined to not restore its required, after it connected participants of his household to a situation.
It had actually collaborated with Guatemalan district attorneys to remove criminal frameworks in the nation, sending out courts, district attorneys, various other public authorities, consisting of previous head of states to test for corruption.
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AP press reporter Astrid Suarez in Bogota, Colombia added to this record.
