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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 18 January 2018

In brief: Guatemala

Guatemala: Guatemala’s finance ministry (Minfin) has dismissed Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa as the head of the country’s tax authorities (SAT). In the post since March 2016, Solórzano reportedly went over the fact that the SAT failed to meet its target of raising Q57.4bn (US$7.8bn) in revenue in 2017, with Q56.1bn raised. A former head of the criminal investigation unit (Dicri) at the attorney general’s office (AG) at the time of his appointment, Solórzano had received the backing of the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig). The SAT has attracted widespread attention in recent years due to the high-profile ‘La Línea’ corruption case. This was the tax fraud corruption ring allegedly headed up by former president Otto Pérez Molina (2012-2015) and his vice-president, Roxanna Baldetti (2012-2015), which ultimately forced the resignation of both.

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