Marvin Quijivix He arrived at the government of Alejandro Giammattei getting a position in the Government Center that operated from February to December 2020 and directed by Miguel Martínez.
He is a mechanical engineer and consultant focused on electrical energy. He was a fees manager in the National Electric Power Commission (CNEE), as well as an advisor to the General Management of the Inde and the Ministry of Energy and Mines.
In 2021, Keila Gramajo, head of the Secretariat of Planning and Programming of the Presidency, began the process of contracting Quijivix in the Inde, with the approval of the then President Giammattei.
On January 22, 2021, the Minister of Energy and Mines of that moment, Alberto Pimentel, ceded his place in the Presidency of the Inde. The alternate director by the National Association of Municipalities, Esteban Adolfo Castillo, proposed to Quijivix for the position, which was granted unanimously.
Nine months ago, the National Commission against Corruption (CNC) filed a complaint for irregularities in the hiring of the consulting company Mine, Sociedad Anónima.
“The power of Melvin Ernesto Quijivix Vega was consolidated as he was elected president of the Indeb Board of Directors, and managed to influence the managers of the different areas of the institution. He changed the managers to validate their criminal structure,” said the current government in November 2024.
Allanades against Quijivix were executed. In 2021, Keila Gramajo, head of the Ministry of Planning and Programming of the Presidency, began the process of contracting Quijivix in the Inde, with the approval of the then President Giammattei.
On January 22, 2021, the Minister of Energy and Mines of that moment, Alberto Pimentel, ceded his place in the Presidency of the Inde. The alternate director by the National Association of Municipalities, Esteban Adolfo Castillo, proposed to Quijivix for the position, which was granted unanimously.
“The power of Melvin Ernesto Quijivix Vega was consolidated as he was elected president of the Indeb Board of Directors, and managed to influence the managers of the different areas of the institution. He changed the managers to validate their criminal structure,” said the current government in November 2024.
Nine months ago, the National Commission against Corruption (CNC) filed a complaint for irregularities in the hiring of the consulting company Mine, Sociedad Anónima.
Raids against Quijivix
On the 3 of last fever the Public Ministry carried out raids in Mixco and Guatemala In monitoring of the corruption Quijivix-Inde And with the objective of collecting indications that strengthen the investigation, the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Impunity (FECI) coordinates 18 proceedings.
On the day of the proceedings, the MP said that derived from the information obtained in the first phase of investigation, the indications point to the participation of more people from the previous government and is not ruled out from the current one.
He added that the FECI has established that the criminal structure granted contracts, payments to companies, commercial and anonymous companies, which do not exist.
While, others only operated and worked in the temporality in which Melvin Quijivix exercised the presidency of the National Electrification Institute (IND).
The investigation focuses on the crimes of money laundering or other assets, illicit association, abuse of authority, influence peddling and testaferrato.
Sanctions
Quijivix was sanctioned by the United States Department of State, who included it in the Engel list of corrupt actors in July 2022.
At that time, the Giammattei government responded by attacking the sanction as a “value trial”, so it was not a factor to separate it from the position.