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Weekly Report - 09 June 2016 (WR-16-22)
GUATEMALA: Congress faces corruption crackdown
The United Nations (UN)-backed anti impunity commission in Guatemala (Cicig) and attorney general’s office (AG) last week claimed another major breakthrough in efforts to crack down on official corruption. In what was a major blow to the 158-member unicameral legislature – one of the country’s least trusted institutions – the AG and Cicig requested legal action on 26 May against seven legislators and arrested three former deputies for alleged corruption. A week later, Cicig and the AG unveiled the findings of an investigation which further laid bare the extent of official corruption that took place under the previous Partido Patriota (PP) government led by disgraced former president Otto Pérez Molina (2012-2015), who was forced to step down last year over allegations that he headed up a corruption ring in the national tax authority (SAT).
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