Weekly Report - 03 November 2016 (WR-16-43)

Pavel Centeno, who served as finance minister in the government of disgraced former president Otto Pérez Molina (2012-2015), died during a police operation on 28 October at a house where he was staying in the municipality of Mixco adjacent to Guatemala City. Police had raided the house along with agents of the specialised unit against impunity (Feci) of the attorney general’s office as part of an investigation into money laundering in the Banco de los Trabajadores (Bantrab).