GuatemalaA Guatemalan decide on Tuesday froze the financial institution accounts of President Bernardo Arévalo’s Semilla get together, as a consequence of an investigation into alleged cash laundering that the prosecutor’s workplace opened in 2023 and that put his investiture in danger in January.
Decide Freddy Orellana, on the request of the prosecution, “approved the freezing of the accounts” of Semilla, a social-democratic get together suspended since final yr by order of the identical Justice of the Peace, the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace mentioned in a press release.
Each Orellana and the heads of the controversial Guatemalan prosecutor’s workplace are beneath sanctions by the USA and the European Union, who accuse them of undermining democracy.
The prosecution initiated proceedings in opposition to Semilla and Arévalo for alleged irregularities within the creation of the get together in 2017, which in January put the investiture of the present president in jeopardy.
For his half, the president accuses the legal professional basic, Consuelo Porras, of obstructing his struggle in opposition to deep-rooted corruption in Guatemala, a marketing campaign promise that led him to win the elections final August.
Arévalo tried to take away Porras, however he lacks the authority to take action. In Could, he submitted a invoice to the opposition-dominated Congress to reform the natural regulation of the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace, however the mission didn’t advance.
Till 2018, Guatemalan presidents had the facility to take away an legal professional basic, however at the moment he can solely be eliminated if he’s convicted.
In the meantime, the legal professional basic, whose time period expires in 2026, maintains a dozen expenses in opposition to the president with the intention of eradicating his immunity and eradicating him from energy.
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– 2024-07-04 01:53:49
