Guatemala leader 'no ally' in corruption fight: prosecutor
15 January 2018 - 20H55
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) -
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales "is not an ally" in combating corruption, his country's chief prosecutor said Monday, deepening a shadow cast across him for suspected illegal campaign financing.
"I don't see the president of the republic as an ally in the fight against corruption," prosecutor Thelma Aldana told reporters.
Her comment came a day after Morales, in a new year's address to the nation, stressed that transparency was one of his priorities in office.
"It seems to me that his speech went beyond the reality," Aldana said.
She recalled protests and political turbulence triggered by Morales in September last year when he tried to kick out the Colombian head of a UN-backed anti-corruption body working in Guatemala, after it started scrutinizing the suspected illicit funding of his 2015 election campaign.
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