GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT'S BROTHER, SON DETAINED IN GRAFT PROBE
Jan 18, 11:15 PM EST
GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT'S BROTHER, SON DETAINED IN GRAFT PROBE
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemalan prosecutors detained the brother and son of President Jimmy Morales on Wednesday in a case of alleged corruption.
A U.N. anti-graft commission said they are suspected of submitting about $23,000 worth of false receipts in an alleged tax fraud.
The president's brother, Samuel, told reporters at the courthouse that he is cooperating with the investigation and said he is innocent.
Attorney General Thelma Aldana said she also sought a warrant for the president's son Jose Manuel Morales Marroquin, 23, but he appeared voluntarily for questioning.
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You may remember the current President's former career as
someone who mocked poor, uneducated, clumsy Guatemalan
men. He was believed to be a clown.
At some point, some people may have come to suspect
he was laughing at them, not with them, I would think.
When he ran for the Presidency, he revealed he was a firm
supporter of the Guatemalan military which slaughtered over
250,000 people, most of them Ixil Mayan indigenous citizens,
pro-right-wing elites who've governed the country since 1954.
"Jose Manuel Morales (right), son of Guatemala's Jimmy Morales, and uncle Samuel"
