Justice
The MP requested the Congress for a copy of President Bernardo Arévalo, in addition to several legislative agreements related to the current legislature.
Bernardo Arévalo, president of Guatemala. (Free Press Photo: AFP)
The Congress of the Republic plans to respond this Friday, May 9, the requirements made by the Public Ministry (MP) regarding the inauguration of President Bernardo Arévalo, in January 2024, legislative sources reported.
Among the required documents, the MP requested the agreements where the new legislature was installed and the credentials issued by the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) were approved to the deputies. He also requested a copy of the agreement through which the current Board of Directors of the Congress was elected, corresponding to the 2025-2026 period.
The Prosecutor’s Office has not deepened details about the investigation that motivates the application of said documents.
However, on Thursday, May 9, the MP accused President Arévalo of having illegally “delivered” the control of the country’s ports to Chinese companies, indication that the Government described as a spurious.
The Prosecutor’s Office made three raids “in monitoring of a complaint of corruption, which indicates directly to the president and his brother Martín Arévalo to deliver to Chinese companies the control of the ports,” said prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche, who has been sanctioned by the United States and the European Union.
Martín Arévalo is biochemist, an expert in public policies and works for the United Nations Organization (UN) in Costa Rica.
The raids were carried out in San José, Escuintla, where Puerto Quetzal is located, the only operational maritime terminal in the Guatemalan Pacific, Curruchiche added in a video broadcast on social networks.
The Ministry of Social Communication of the Presidency rejected the prosecutor’s accusations by qualifying them as “spurious accusations, which scratch and ridiculous.”
He also indicated that the accusation was launched a few weeks after the Guatemala government firm a letter of understanding with the United States Navy to improve and expand the Quetzal Port Company (EPQ).