Judge Eduardo Orozco, of the High Risk Court B, suspended this Wednesday, July 22, the hearing in which he was to comply with a resolution of the Second Chamber of the High Risk Court of Appeals, constituted as the Amparo Court, which ultimately granted an amparo in favor of Jonathan Chévez, indicated in the State Cooptation case.
The resolution of the Chamber orders the judge to revoke the decision issued on November 5, 2025, by which it was resolved that Chévez face trial for the crime of laundering money or other assets. Likewise, it instructs him to issue a new resolution in which he orders the dismissal of the process in favor of the accused.
At the beginning of the proceedings, Orozco read the resolution issued by the magistrates. However, representatives of the Public Ministry (MP) and the Quetzal Port Company reported that they presented amparo appeals before the Constitutional Court (CC) against the Chamber’s ruling, for which they requested to suspend the hearing until the highest court in constitutional matters resolves those appeals.
After listening to the parties’ arguments, the judge considered that it was not possible to immediately execute what was ordered by the Chamber, due to the existence of the amparo appeals filed before the CC. As he explained, this circumstance prevented him from complying with the resolution until there is a ruling from the high constitutional court.
Based on this criterion, the judge suspended the hearing and indicated that, once the Constitutional Court resolves the pending appeals, it will summon the procedural subjects again to continue with the corresponding procedure.
Jonathan Chévez remains under house arrest.
According to the investigation by the Public Ministry, Chévez would have managed at least Q25 million through a group of companies, with the purpose of giving the appearance of legality to the movement of those resources. According to the Prosecutor’s Office’s hypothesis, this money could have been used for the acquisition of goods and services in favor of former presidents Otto Pérez Molina and Roxana Baldetti, within the investigations related to the Cooptation of the State case.
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