Interpol Issues Warrant for Guatemalan Media Baroness
Interpol Issues Warrant for Guatemalan Media Baroness
Lorenzana Alba's picture was released by Interpol. | Photo: Interpol
Published 10 September 2016 (5 hours 14 minutes ago)
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Interpol issued an international arrest warrant for Alba Elvira Lorenzana Cardona, the owner of several television channels in Guatemala, on charges that she funneled over US$23 million to disgraced former President Otto Perez Molina's political party in a pay-to-play kickback scheme.
Charges were presented by Guatemala's attorney general and the U.S.-backed International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). The arrest warrant against her has been issued in 190 countries where Interpol has representation.
In exchange for the money to the Patriotic Party, 69 percent of the government's advertising from January 2012 to April of 2015 went to her media companies, La Prensa Libre reported.
Perez Molina and his Vice President Roxana Baldetti also received illicit funds from a group of state contractors to help finance their 2011 presidential election campaign. Contractors provided these funds on the promise they would be given preferential treatment in winning state contracts.
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