Guatemala’s court ordered the arrest and former Colombian officials, the Attorney General and former minister, accusing them of corruption in the context of the Brazilian construction company scandal yesterday. Odebrecht, according to the prosecutor’s office in the state of Central America.

Arrest warrants were issued for the General Prosecutor Lus Adriana Kamargos and the former Minister of Defense – an additional ambassador to the Vatican – Ivan Velasks.

Both of them had been leading executives of the International Commission against impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) supported by the UN.

Guatemaltekos Prosecutor Rafael Kurutsitche He accused Mr. Velaskes of being “Entrepreneurs of the Ondebrecht Construction Company” and so caused ‘Damage to the State’ of Guatemalas that as he rises to ‘Three billion ketsal’, or otherwise about 340 million euros.

Mr Kouroutsice, in which the US and the EU have been imposed For ‘corruption’, said that these two persons committed criminal offenses such as “Establishment and gang, obstruction of justice, the exercise of unfair influence and unfair partnership”.

Ivan Velaskes was the head of Cicig, who has now been dismantled, from 2013 to 219. The Lus Adriana Kamargos was responsible for the investigations and trials in this entity from 2014 to 2017. Both of them typically have criminal immunityas they acted in the context of Cicig’s command, part of the United Nations system.

Cicig was created to help the authorities dislocate criminal structures within the Guatemalan state. He was persecuted by the country since 2019 and dissolved by the decision of the President at the time of the conservative populist Jimmy Morales.

He played a key role in 2015 in the revelation of the long -awaited scandal of fraud and corruption in Guatemala’s customs that had led to the resignation of the president at the time of his time, Othe Peres (2012-2015), as General ea He was accused of being the promoter and basic beneficial abuse.

Mr Velaskes, who is preparing to take over as ambassador to the Vatican, opposed X’s what was claimed by prosecutor Kouroutsica and expressed ‘Solidarity’ His many citizens of Guatemala “who forced to exterminate” the prosecutor’s prosecution in persecution, especially former prosecutors and judges fighting against corruption.

This is not the first time that Guatemala’s prosecutor’s office has been a criminal proceedings against the Colombian former defense minister. He had already attempted, unsuccessfully, in 2023.

The Colombian Foreign Ministry in turn condemned the prosecution’s prosecution on the initiative of the Guatemaltec Prosecutor Kourutsicz, in which he sees “Attack on fundamental principles of international justice” and “international law”.