{"id":348534,"date":"2017-08-27T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=348534"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:46:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:46:04","slug":"guatemala-expels-head-of-u-n-anti-graft-unit-probing-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/guatemala-expels-head-of-u-n-anti-graft-unit-probing-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Guatemala expels head of U.N. anti-graft unit probing president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has declared as \u201cpersona non grata\u201d the head of an influential U.N. anti-graft unit seeking to investigate his campaign financing and ordered the official to leave the Central American country immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a video published on his Facebook account on Sunday, the president said Ivan Velasquez, head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), must leave national territory with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>The move came after the CICIG in 2015 was instrumental in removing Guatemala\u2019s former president from office after identifying him as a key player in an alleged multi-million-dollar corruption racket.<\/p>\n<p>Guatemala\u2019s foreign minister Carlos Raul Morales left the government on Sunday, according to the ministry\u2019s Twitter account. The circumstances of his departure were not immediately clear, but the former minister, who is not related to the president, said on Friday he would resign if Velasquez was forced out.<\/p>\n<p>U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he was \u201cshocked\u201d by Velasquez\u2019 expulsion, and called on Guatemalan authorities to treat with respect the Colombian national, who was believed to still be in Guatemala on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Eliot Engel of the U.S. house committee on foreign affairs said he was \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d by the decision to expel Velasquez and called on the State Department and Congress to examine the future of U.S. assistance to the Guatemalan government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCICIG has played a transformational role in combating corruption and impunity in Guatemala,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has declared as \u201cpersona non grata\u201d the head of an influential U.N. anti-graft unit seeking to investigate his campaign financing and ordered the official to leave the Central American country immediately. 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