The former Chief of the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and current Colombian ambassador to the Vatican, Iván Velásquez Gómez, said on Tuesday, June 3 on his social networks that he will not lend “to the game” of the Public Ministry (MP) of Guatemala, who requests his capture for the Odebrecht case.
Last Monday, June 2, the head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Impunity (FECI), Rafael Curruchiche, revealed that an Appeals Chamber ordered the arrest of Velásquez and Luz Camargo, current attorney general of Colombia, for his alleged involvement in the Odebrecht case, when both were CICIG officials.
The actions of the Guatemalan Prosecutor’s Office have generated reactions both in the country and abroad, mainly in Colombia, where the government has described the arrest warrants as illegal.
This Tuesday, Velásquez expressed in his social networks that he will not lend himself to the “Prosecutor’s Game”, whose actions described as perverse and linked to corruption.
“Given the large number of solidarity messages that I directly and/or through social networks I have received, I want to express to all of all my immense gratitude and that of my family for that generosity and the trust they have had in me,” said Velásquez in the social network X.
He added: “I understand perfectly the purposes and intentions prtervas – perverse – who encourage not only the corrupt who are in charge of the Guatemalan Prosecutor’s Office, but to those who support and encourage them (there and here), because they serve their political interests or because they have benefited from the impunity that the Public Ministry prodes them.”
The message concluded: “I have so far refrained from giving statements, because I will not lend myself to make the game to that, as the poet said, ” inferior caste of power, eloquently eloquent caste of impotence ‘who has been harassing so many guatemalans who, with dignity, courage and honesty, support exile or prison, men and women of gratitude, admiration and solidarity. ”
Prosecutor is pronounced
Camargo said Tuesday that the arrest warrant issued against him for the Justice of Guatemala lacks a legal basis and is part of an “unprecedented counterattack” against her and her entity for her fight against corruption and organized crime.
“We are observing that this fight against corruption and organized crime, inside and outside the country, is generating an unprecedented counterattack against the entity’s servers and the attorney general of the Nation. The decision announced yesterday by the Public Ministry of Guatemala is one of those demonstrations,” said Camargo at a press conference.
The prosecutor said that she is calm for her innocence in the “facts that, with political bias,” are attributed to her work at the CICIG and stressed that “there is no international arrest warrant” and that “it will not be issued, taking into account the statement of the Government of Guatemala that rejects the request of the Public Ministry” of that country.
With EFE information