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Weekly Report - 12 October 2017 (WR-17-40)
GUATEMALA: Arzú targeted in anti-corruption efforts
One of Guatemala’s most well-known political figures, Álvaro Arzú, a former president (Partido de Avanzada Nacional, 1996-2000) and the current mayor of Guatemala City, has become the latest senior official to face corruption-related accusations from the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) and the attorney general’s office (AG). In an announcement which further shook the political establishment following calls for President Jimmy Morales to face investigation over two separate cases [WR-17-39], last week Cicig’s director Iván Velásquez and the AG Thelma Aldana called for Arzú to be investigated for creating false payrolls and using public funds for his mayoral re-election bid in 2015.
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