Floridalma Roque lived in the United States and according to migratory records, entered Guatemala on June 3, 2023 on a flight that arrived at La Aurora International Airport, from Honduras. The reason for the trip was to practice cosmetic surgery at the Kevin Malouf clinic, located in one of the most luxurious buildings in the capital.
She planned to operate the sagging of arms and eyelids on June 13, 2023, but then she was no longer known about her whereabouts.
According to the investigation of the Public Ministry (MP), Roque entered the clinic and did not leave, while the Malouf surgeon said the patient left the clinic.
According to the Femicide Prosecutor’s Office, the plastic surgeon Kevin Malouf, Susana Rojas, Luis Castro -ephermers-, and Lydia Viviana Silva -Sanestesiologist- simulated the exit of Roque. The Red nurse was the one who sat in a wheelchair and pretended to be the patient while Castro took her out of the clinic.
Then, the alleged patient rose to a taxi and went to zone 10, where she descended from the vehicle and met with Malouf.
In the reconstruction of the facts, the MP explained to the judge that Roque arrived on June 13, 2023 to the clinic accompanied by Star Sandoval de Mazariegos and a day before made a payment of Q74 thousand 400 for the operation.
The videos show how Roque arrives in a black truck and leaves it at the entrance of the building. Then, the images capture it at the entrance to the lobby carrying a suitcase, and seconds later the clinic staff takes it to the elevator and transfer it to the third level, where the aesthetic clinic is.
Prior to this, it is seen entering the clinic personnel and even the anesthesiologist, which loads its team for the intervention.
Mutilated corpse
Nurse Castro decided to declare in the Chamber on May 2, 2024, during the intermediate stage of the judicial process.
As he declared, both he and the other employees warned Malouf that it was necessary to acquire insulin, and in the most desperate moments, that a transfer of the emergency patient towards a hospital was required.
But he said, Malouf resisted.
“We tell Mr. Malouf that we have to move to Mrs. Roque and he says no, that this is very expensive, that he will not pay it,” Castro added.
“Unfortunately, Mrs. Roque never woke up and could not know to this day what the cause was,” he added.
It was then that by continuing his statement he revealed that Malouf, he and the other two involved were responsible for having placed the body in a large boat with wheels, followed by a phrase that resonated in the room: “It was fetal.”
The prosecutor asked him another direct question: “Can you indicate who helps in that regard?” Castro responded immediately: “The four people we were – in the clinic.”
At 23.57 hours the same day after the operation, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, Malouf retired from his clinic and transferred the victim’s remains to his home in Santa Catarina Pinula.
Hours later, Malouf with other people coordinated actions to disappear the victim’s body.
The prosecutor said that dentated mountains were used with which they fragmented the body of Floridalma Roque. He continued: “Then, you – Malouf – and his partners agree to launch the human remains of his victim to a wooded area in San Vicente Pacaya, Escuintla.”
The human remains were located on June 5, 2024 inside a pit, about 29 kilometers away from the capital.
Conviction
For the acceptance of charges, yesterday Malouf was sentenced to 3 years and four months in prison for the crime of guilty homicide; Lydia Silva, two years old and 3 months for guilty homicide in a tentative degree, and Susana Rojas received 3 years by own cover -up. The three sentenced were disabled to exercise their charge for six years and seven months.
To this conviction is added another of October 3, 2024, when the nurse Castro, Malouf, Silva and Rojas were sent to prison for two years for hindering criminal action.
That same day Castro also received another sentence to a month in prison for his own cover -up crime.