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Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by HonNL: 11:46am On Dec 08, 2022
A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced both former President Otto Perez and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, to 16 years in prison each in a graft case years after explosive corruption revelations forced the two out of office early and into prison.

The pair were found guilty of illicit association and customs fraud, but were acquitted on a charge of illicit enrichment.

Perez, who was president of Guatemala from 2012 to 2015, has spent the last seven years in prison awaiting a verdict in the case. Baldetti was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison in 2018 in a separate fraud case.

Perez, a 72-year-old retired general who took office promising to crack down on crime, was forced to resign with just four months left in his term amid protests over corruption scandals.

"All that's left is to appeal," Perez told reporters during a break in the trial, adding he felt "cheated" because the conviction was made "without a shred of proof."

Perez and Baldetti were accused of leading a customs fraud network that stole some $3.5 million in state funds during their administration, with both Perez and Baldetti accused by investigators of receiving hefty cuts.

Investigators had charged that the two led a scheme in which importers paid bribes to avoid paying customs duties. More than two dozen others have been charged in the case.

Perez was ordered to pay 8.7 million quetzales ($1.10 million) while Baldetti was fined 8.4 million quetzales ($1.06 million) on Wednesday.

The case, known as "La Linea," was originally investigated under the now-defunct International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), backed by the United Nations.

Guatemala expelled the head of the CICIG, Colombian Ivan Velasquez, in 2018 after his repeated attempts to investigate then-President Jimmy Morales and after jailing dozens of politicians and businessmen.

The next year, Morales let the mandate authorizing the CICIG's operations expire, shuttering the commission. In 2021, Guatemalan investigators began to target judges, prosecutors and journalists for having collaborated with the CICIG, forcing many into exile.

Since then, several of those implicated in corruption cases investigated by the CICIG have been freed and the CICIG's findings have been annulled. Velasquez this year became Colombia's minister of defense.

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by aylive02(m): 12:01pm On Dec 08, 2022
This is a region where things work. In a saner country, those two old men contesting for presidency in Nigeria would be behind the bars. Vote wisely, vote OBI

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Brendaniel: 12:01pm On Dec 08, 2022
They protested for him to step down and he did over incompetence, in Nigeria they protested for him to step down and he killed them over incompetence, and yet he has supporters who justified the killings saying they should use election to protest.

Now the people are protesting with Peter Obi, they are calling them haters of the government - a vote for Peter Obi is a vote for justice

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by b0rn2fuck(m): 12:01pm On Dec 08, 2022
It will send statement to the active people in power there unlike ours where they will be floating wings like bird after looting

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Solitechworld(m): 12:01pm On Dec 08, 2022
Can never happen for Naija....

Abeg! I dey unlock network lock Samsung and Iphones ooooo

I dey bypass activation lock for macbooks and Iphones tooo...

Obasanjo, atiku, Jonathan, tinubu, Peter obi and the likes supposed dey kirikiri for now dey serve life sentence....

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Lokospirit(m): 12:01pm On Dec 08, 2022
I await the day we will have a news like this carrying(Nigeria ��).

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Swiperite: 12:01pm On Dec 08, 2022
Good.

A country with a working judiciary.

Obi can make our institutions work for the good of all.

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by toprealman: 12:01pm On Dec 08, 2022
I wish Nigeria can emulate this and start dumping those vampires we have as leaders,past and present, inside kiririkiri.

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by FomeTechNG(m): 12:01pm On Dec 08, 2022
Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Cosmatikka: 12:02pm On Dec 08, 2022
The former Lagos governor know to be a drug baron deserves a fate like this

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Realists(m): 12:02pm On Dec 08, 2022
The law is blind to your social status,

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Umsworld: 12:02pm On Dec 08, 2022
grin
Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by obi4eze(m): 12:02pm On Dec 08, 2022
cheesy
Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by confluence: 12:02pm On Dec 08, 2022
Can never happen in my country Nigeria

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by etrouble: 12:02pm On Dec 08, 2022
Okay nah.

16 years imprisonment for that small money. Money wey Nigeria's evil politicians dey dash side chicks.

No Nigerian politician will die well. Their children's children will all die miserably.

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by JoeNL22(m): 12:02pm On Dec 08, 2022
Obi.....hope you are taking note?

You must bring to justice all those thieves and criminals who have stolen the wealth of this nation from 1999 to date.

For with GOD, President Omoluabi Ahmed Obi must be Possible. Datti's a Fact!

Nitoripe pelu OLORUN, Aare Omoluabi Ahmed Obi gbodo le se, Òótọ́ niyẹn!

N'ihi na n'ebe CHINEKE nọ, Onye isi ala Omoluabi Ahmed Obi ga-enwerịrị ike, Nke ahụ bụ Eziokwu!

Domin tare da ALLAH, dole ne shugaba Omoluabi Ahmed Obi ya zama mai yiwuwa, Wannan Gaskiya ne!

Car avec DIEU, le Président Omoluabi Ahmed Obi doit être Possible, C'est un Fait!

This message is brought to you by;
The Cummissioner, Southwest citizens for President Omoluabi Obi.
IFEOLUWA OSHO.

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Imekoon(m): 12:03pm On Dec 08, 2022
Omo na every president and vp dey go jail?

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Akinsete19(m): 12:03pm On Dec 08, 2022
Can never happen here
Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by ThiefnubuBandit: 12:03pm On Dec 08, 2022
If this country was a sane country, the Iragbiji drug criminal called Tinupoo would have been given a life sentence.

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Truckman2022: 12:04pm On Dec 08, 2022
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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by DennisEche(m): 12:04pm On Dec 08, 2022
smiley
If EFCC cant secure the conviction of many Nigeria ex President. Then it shows they are useless. Chasing Yahoo Boiz up and down is not a track record

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by TalkTalkTwins(m): 12:04pm On Dec 08, 2022
sad
Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by jawalis(m): 12:05pm On Dec 08, 2022
Whatever rocks their boat. Nigeria is messed up beyond redemption.
By the way, I miss wumi2017 here.
Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by jojothaiv(m): 12:05pm On Dec 08, 2022
Na this kain news I dey like.

Nobody should go unpunished..
Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by sofeo(m): 12:05pm On Dec 08, 2022
Ok.
Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Rofon: 12:05pm On Dec 08, 2022
aylive02:
This is a region where things work. In a saner country, those two old men contesting for presidency in Nigeria would be behind the bars. Vote wisely, vote OBI
aylive02:
This is a region where things work. In a saner country, those two old men contesting for presidency in Nigeria would be behind the bars. Vote wisely, vote OBI
as if Obi didn't steal when he was a governor
Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Nicenixon: 12:07pm On Dec 08, 2022
South America dy para o, na Peru first, now Guatemala self don join
Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by etrouble: 12:07pm On Dec 08, 2022
JoeNL22:
Obi.....hope you are taking note?

You must bring to justice all those thieves and criminals who have stolen the wealth of this nation from 1999 to date.

For with GOD, President Omoluabi Ahmed Obi must be Possible. Datti's a Fact!

Nitoripe pelu OLORUN, Aare Omoluabi Ahmed Obi gbodo le se, Òótọ́ niyẹn!

N'ihi na n'ebe CHINEKE nọ, Onye isi ala Omoluabi Ahmed Obi ga-enwerịrị ike, Nke ahụ bụ Eziokwu!

Domin tare da ALLAH, dole ne shugaba Omoluabi Ahmed Obi ya zama mai yiwuwa, Wannan Gaskiya ne!

Car avec DIEU, le Président Omoluabi Ahmed Obi doit être Possible, C'est un Fait!

This message is brought to you by;
The Cummissioner, Southwest citizens for President Omoluabi Obi.
IFEOLUWA OSHO.

Whatever you are smoking, stop it before it stops you.

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by Racoon(m): 12:08pm On Dec 08, 2022
When will this ever happen in Nigeria?

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Re: Court Jails Guatemalan Ex-President Otto Perez & His VP Roxana Baldetti by etrouble: 12:08pm On Dec 08, 2022
DennisEche:
smiley
If EFCC cant secure the conviction of many Nigeria ex President. Then it shows they are useless. Chasing Yahoo Boiz up and down is not a track record

Ex governors Joshua Dariye and Jonah Jang wey Court jail nko? Shebi cursed Buhari gave them Presidential Pardon. That unfortunate lifeless cow will not die well

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