Guatemalan president will be convicted of graft: AG [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Guatemalan president will be convicted of graft: AG
By AFP 1 hour ago .

Guatemala's attorney general said Wednesday she is confident embattled President Otto Perez will be convicted of corruption, as the country's top court rejected his challenge to prosecutors' moves to try him.

The conservative leader is against the ropes after Congress voted unanimously Tuesday to strip him of his immunity, clearing the way for prosecutors to go ahead with their case against him.

Investigators accuse Perez of running a scheme in which businesses paid bribes to dodge taxes on their imports, defrauding the country of millions of dollars.

"There's a criminal case and we will go to trial and then a verdict. In my opinion and based on what I know of the case, it will have to be a conviction," Attorney General Thelma Aldana told AFP.

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