Martinez Morales, the former head of the now-defunct Centro de Gobierno and a close partner of the Guatemalan former president Alejandro Giammattei, has been sanctioned for his alleged participation in corrupt activities. According to the US treasury, Martinez engaged in bribery and corruption related to government contracts to benefit himself and his close associates [1]. …
Chang was the Guatemalan Minister of Energy and Mines from 2016 to 2020, under the government of Jimmy Morales. He was also the head of the board of the National Electrification Institute of Guatemala (INDE). He allegedly solicited bribes and other favours in exchange for not revoking an oil exploitation licence. According to the U.S. …
Vargas is a member of the Guatemalan Congress and one of the individuals supposedly operating a network designed to control contracts and operations at government-run ports for personal profit. He is accused of engaging in bribery at the centre of Congress, around the functioning of ports and allocation of contracts. According to the U.S. Treasury, …
Rodriguez was the President of the Congress of Guatemala from 2020 to 2022 and is accused of awarding construction grants in exchange for financial kickbacks. According to the U.S. Treasury, he has also used his political influence to strike deals in exchange for bribes and facilitated bribes to others, including, for example, by allegedly offering …
Iryna Litviniuk and Dmitry Kudryakov allegedly led various corruption schemes involving politicians, judges, and government officials with the aim of exploiting the Guatemalan mining sector. Moreover, Litviniuk is accused of bribing public officials to ensure their support of Russian mining interests. [1] Information
Dmitry Kudryakov, along with Iryna Litviniuk, allegedly led various corruption schemes involving politicians, judges, and government officials with the aim of exploiting the Guatemalan mining sector. [1] Information
Manuel Victor Martinez Olivet has been accused of engaging in various acts of misappropriation, fraud, and abuse of authority during his tenure as the Director of the Santa Rosa Health Area within the Guatemalan Ministry of Public Health. It is believed that Martinez leveraged his position to award contracts to companies related to his family …
In February 2020, FECI discovered that while in pre-trial detention for his prior alleged corrupt activities, Gustavo Adolfo Alejos Cambara (Gustavo), the former Chief of Staff for the Alvaro Colom presidential administration from 2008–2012, had been seeking to influence the judicial selection process for magistrates to the CSJ and Court of Appeals. To do this, …
Julio Antonio Juarez Ramirez (Juarez) is a Guatemalan Congressman accused of ordering an attack in 2015 in which two journalists were killed and another injured. Guatemalan prosecutors and an UN-sponsored commission investigating corruption in Guatemala allege that Juarez hired hitmen to kill Prensa Libre correspondent Danilo Efrain Zapan Lopez, whose reporting had hurt Juarez’s plan …
Alejos Lorenzena is a Deputy and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Congress of Guatemala. He is alleged to have been involved in serious corruption using his position to attract clients with the offer of expediting the refund of tax credits in exchange for bribes, and benefitting from commission charges. He is …
