Guatemala President Expels UN Anti-Corruption Chief
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced Sunday he is expelling the head of a U.N. anti-corruption commission that is investigating the president’s campaign financing.
GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales announced Sunday he is expelling the head of a U.N. anti-corruption commission that is investigating the president’s campaign financing.
His vendors call him a “career grifter.” His father’s creditors claim he’s a fraud and a serial extortionist who shakes people down with trumped-up threats of criminal charges.
The US Treasury Department’s announcement that it yet again extended a program to thwart money laundering by Russians and other foreigners through luxury US real estate begs the question: why isn’t it permanent?
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has ordered police to open an investigation against three former Bank Leumi executives alleged to have aided US customers in tax evasion, media reports said.