Mario Roberto Rojas Espino, former Minister of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), received a sentence of 1 year and 6 months in prison. In addition, he must pay an economic bond for reparation worth Q18 thousand 998.61, for the crime of using falsified documents.
The Prosecutor’s Office against Electoral Crimes managed to get the Second Pluripersonal Court of First Criminal Instance to issue a conviction.
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Said sentence was carried out by way of acceptance of charges against former minister Mario Roberto Rojas Espino “for the crime of using falsified documents,” confirmed the Public Ministry (MP).
Rojas Espino, who is the brother of deputy Anibal Rojas Espino, “presented for the candidacy for deputy of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen), false criminal and police records,” said the MP.
The Prosecutor’s Office against Electoral Crimes managed to get the Second Pluripersonal Court of First Criminal Instance to issue a conviction by accepting charges against Mario Roberto Rojas Espino pic.twitter.com/p2wgNTvP1t
— Guatemalan MP (@MPguatemala) July 30, 2023
Rojas Espino resigned from his position in October 2022. The law indicates that no official can be a candidate for any public office, for this reason, everything indicated that he would run.
Mario Rojas Espino was the one who, at the time, tried through a bill to unite all the institutions related to the environment to form a “Super Ministry of the Environment.”
