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Guatemalan leader seeks ouster of U.N.-backed anti-graft chief: sources
Topic Started: Aug 24 2017, 06:00 AM (165 Views)
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#WORLD NEWS AUGUST 23, 2017 / 1:15 PM / 8 HOURS AGO

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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales will ask United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to remove the head of a U.N.-backed investigative body probing the politician's family for suspected graft, two government officials said on Wednesday.

Morales, a former comedian elected on a pledge to fight corruption, has been tarnished by a graft probe focused on an elder brother and one of the president's sons. It is led by the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials said Morales would travel this week to New York, where he would ask Guterres to replace CICIG chief Ivan Velasquez, a Colombian whose tenure is scheduled to expire in 2019.
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Prosecutors target Guatemala president over campaign financing
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala’s attorney general and a U.N-backed anti-graft body on Friday said they are seeking to investigate President Jimmy Morales over suspected illicit campaign financing.

Ivan Velasquez, head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), told reporters there was evidence that Morales broke the law when he was head of the conservative National Convergence Front (FCN), and that prosecutors had filed a motion to investigate him.

“In order to advance the investigation, it’s necessary to remove his immunity,” said Velasquez, who on Thursday unveiled a probe into all political parties over suspected wrongdoing related to financing for the 2015 election campaign.
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Guatemalan president orders out UN anti-corruption investigator
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Guatemala's president has ordered the expulsion from the country of the head of the UN anti-corruption mission.

President Jimmy Morales ordered Iván Velásquez Gómez's immediate removal in a video message released on Sunday.

The Constitutional Court quickly halted the order, but Mr Morales said it did not have the power to overrule his decisions on foreign affairs.
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President Morales won the 2015 election with an anti-corruption agenda
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Will Jimmy Morales get the last laugh ??.................. :dunno:
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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He had to explain the joke:

Guatemala President Jimmy Morales under fire for UN expulsion
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Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales has been condemned for his order to expel the head of the UN's anti-corruption mission in the country.
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There have been protests against President Morales - this sign calls for his resignation
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Guatemala leader at crossroads after court blocks expulsion
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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — President Jimmy Morales faced a crossroads Wednesday after Guatemala’s highest court ruled he could not expel the head of a U.N. anti-corruption commission from the country.

Morales cannot appeal Tuesday’s decision by the Constitutional Court, and he now faces a separate legal fight over whether he should be stripped of his official immunity and face investigation over possible illicit campaign financing. That decision will be made by another body, the country’s Supreme Court.
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Indigenous leaders stand in support of U.N. International Commission Against Impunity commissioner Ivan Velasquez, in front of a police line in Guatemala City, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he continues to fully support the head of a U.N. anti-corruption commission in Guatemala in spite of that country’s attempt to expel him. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala top court sides with U.N. graft unit in fight with president
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala’s top court on Tuesday ruled definitively against President Jimmy Morales’ internationally criticized push to expel the head of a U.N.-backed anti-corruption unit probing his campaign financing.

The decision by the Constitutional Court ratifies a provisional ruling that the government could not expel Ivan Velasquez, a veteran Colombian prosecutor who leads Guatemala’s International Commission against Impunity, known as CICIG.

Morales on Sunday ordered the expulsion of the prosecutor, who has been a thorn in the president’s side by investigating his son and brother, and then seeking to remove his own immunity from investigation over more than $800,000 in potentially unexplained campaign funds. He has denied any wrongdoing.


Jimmy Morales: right-wing, conservative, populist outsider who promised draining the dirty swamp of politics... :devil:
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Trial against Guatemalan president's brother, son begins
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A fraud trial against the brother and son of Guatemalan president Jimmy Morales began on Wednesday amid a scandal touched off by the president’s attempt to expel the leader of a U.N.-backed anti-corruption unit investigating the case.

Guatemala’s top tribunal, the Constitutional Court, ruled definitively on Tuesday against Morales’ internationally criticized push to expel from the country Ivan Velasquez, the Colombian who leads the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).[nL8N1LF4RY]
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