Fred L. Abrams, Attorney At Law (LexBlog Guatemala)

U.S. prosecutors issued a press release yesterday announcing the extradition of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo.  Mr. Portillo’s extradition to the United States was based on his alleged money laundering. Yesterday, Mr. Portillo was also arraigned in federal court in Manhattan.  Although Mr. Portillo was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal, the Court’s docket reveals...

The Ministerio Publico and the General Prosecutor of Guatemala assert that ex-president of Guatemala’s Congress Reuben Dario Morales Veliz, could have received graft payments in a public corruption scheme.  Payments believed to be connected to the alleged corruption scheme may have been laundered through Guatemalan and U.S. bank accounts. To collect evidence regarding one of...

Today’s “Asset Search News Roundup” is about the New York case against the ex-president of Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo and it also mentions the sentencing of New York former top cop Bernard Kerik: The one-count indictment unsealed on January 26, 2010 in the case against ex-president Portillo is available here.  Mr. Portillo’s indictment alleges that he...