The former Minister of the Interior Carlos Fernando García Rubio was linked to criminal proceedings this Monday, April 28 for his alleged involvement in the violent death of Hansel Ernesto Szarata Valdés, 30, a event that occurred on April 5 in the parking lot of a shopping center in Zone 16, judicial sources reported.
In 2021, García Rubio FEU Vice Minister of Violence Prevention during the government of Alejandro Giammattei. The following year, he received Q306 thousand from the Ministry of Environment, from the Guatemalan Institute of Social Security and the Executive Secretariat of the Commission against Addictions, for consulting and training; However, now the Public Ministry (MP) points out as responsible for the death of Szarata Valdés, who was head of the Legal Management Department of the Congress of the Republic.
From that account, this Monday was linked to criminal proceedings and sent to preventive detention at the Preventive Center for Men in Zone 18. The case will be in charge of the Seventh Criminal Court, according to the resolution of a court on duty.
For his part, García Rubio said that MP’s analysis are wrong, because the investigation is still in a preliminary stage and there are no sufficient elements to impute it; In addition, he pointed out that the Prosecutor’s Office does not have a ballistic career analysis.
He added that other people have not been individualized who, according to him, participated in the fact.
He also indicated that there was manipulation of the facts, because the evidence presented by his defense was not taken into account.
On April 23, the Prosecutor for Crimes against Life and Integrity of MP people reported that García Rubio had been apprehended in the 7th street and 28 avenue of the Bosques neighborhood of San Nicolás, zone 4 of Mixco, for being the alleged responsible for death to bullets of Szarata Valdés.
According to the MP, based on witness statements and the analysis of security cameras, the investigators individualized García Rubio and requested their apprehension to the Court of Urgent proceedings, which authorized it for the crime of homicide.
The prosecution added that, at the time of arrest, García Rubio carried two firearms.