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ReliefWeb
March 9, 2018
From 2000 to 2004, she was Minister of Culture and Sports of Guatemala during the period of government under President Alfonso Portillo. She was also a member of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues of the United Nations from 2002 to 2004. She has been deputy to the Congress of the RepublicÃâà...
BBC News
March 2, 2018
Morales's predecessor, former President Otto Perez, is currently behind bars, awaiting trial on graft charges uncovered by that same commission. Alfonso Portillo, who was in office between 2000 and 2004, pleaded guilty to attempting to launder a $2.5m (Ãâã1.6m) Taiwanese bribe in US banks and wasÃâà...
New Zealand Herald
February 28, 2018
Alfonso Portillo (2000-2004) was absolved of embezzlement charges in Guatemala in 2011 but later extradited to the United States where he pleaded guilty to money laundering and served two years in prison. Otto Perez Molina (2012-2015), who resigned in disgrace amid a corruption scandal involvingÃâà...
Chicago Daily Herald
February 13, 2018
A customs fraud scandal that allegedly sent kickbacks to then-President Otto Perez Molina and Vice President Roxana Baldetti led both to resign in 2015. They have been jailed awaiting trial, but more than 100 defense filings have delayed the trial. Alfonso Portillo, Guatemala's president from 2000 to 2004,Ãâà...
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