Posted on 12/09/2022 2:41:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced former president Otto Perez to 16 years in prison, finding him guilty of leading a massive customs fraud scheme while in office.
Perez, who was forced to resign in 2015, was found guilty of racketeering and fraud targeting the customs system, Judge Irma Jeannette Valdes said as she read out the sentence.
Perez was sentenced to eight years on each count. His former vice president Roxana Baldetti received the same sentence. A UN-backed anti-corruption body revealed several scandals in Guatemala before it was shut down in 2019 by then-president Jimmy Morales after it began investigating him.
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He should have got advice from Hunter.
WOW. impressive.
Oooh! Do biden and the rest of his crime family next then, well, the list is far too long to list here. Most good Freepers know who deserves to be indicted, found guilty, then sentenced accordingly.
Too bad Hillary didn’t move down there.
Banana Republic like ours.
Yeah...
Ours has a lot of potential, but we sure aren’t living up to
it.
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