UN secretary general, António Guterres, reiterated on Tuesday that Colombian lawyers Luz Adriana Camargo and Iván Velásquezagainst which the Guatemalan Prosecutor’s Office has issued an arrest warrant, They enjoy immunity regarding their role in the International Commission against Impunity (CICIG).
“(Guterres) reiterates that the international staff of the Commission, by virtue of the agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Guatemala, It enjoys immunity against judicial processes with respect to the acts carried out in the performance of their mission“The spokesman for Guterres, Stéphane Dujarric, said at his daily press conference.
Dujarric insisted that this immunity It continues even after finishing your work with the commission And he recalled that the Guatemala government promised to protect the personnel of the same “Of abuses, threats, reprisals or acts of intimidation”.
In addition, he transferred that Guterres expresses his concern about the numerous complaints that point to what is being criminally chasing “those who intended to shed light on corruption cases and work to strengthen the rule of law and the Guatemala justice system. ”
The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala, under the command of Velásquez and with the participation of Camargo, dismantled between 2014 and 2019 more of a hundred corruption structures within the State.
While Velásquez was also Minister of Defense in the government of President Gustavo Petro And now he works as Colombia Ambassador to the VaticanCamargo is the current attorney general of Colombia.
The arrest warrant was issued by the Third Court of Appeals of the Judicial Agency and obeys alleged irregularities during the work of Velásquez and Camargo in the Cicig for the Odebrecht caseas detailed by local media.
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