Guatemala: Journalist critical of the Giammattei government is linked to the third criminal trial

Journalist Guatemalan Jose Ruben Zamora Marroquin was linked to a new criminal process for an alleged falsification of documents, one day after being convicted in a money laundering case.

“I think that if they find dandruff or a sting on my elbow they will persecute me for that”, Zamora Marroquín told journalists prior to a hearing against him for the new case raised.

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Judge Jimmy Bremerin charge Ninth Criminal Court of First Instance of the Guatemalan judicial body, linked Zamora Marroquín to the process for the alleged crime of continuous use of false documents.

He Public ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) accuses the 66-year-old journalist of allegedly having used altered stationery to leave the country in 2015.

Zamora Marroquín has been in a Guatemalan prison for 10 months and this Wednesday he was sentenced to 6 years in prison for an alleged case of money laundering.

The communicator was arrested on July 29, just five days after launching strong criticism of the president Alejandro Giammattei and his close circle.

In addition, the journalist denounced that during his detention two of his lawyers have been implicated in spurious cases.

After the 6-year prison sentence, Zamora Marroquín assured that he will seek an appeal in an international court of human rights, considering that the accusation against him lacks foundation.

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Two years ago, the journalist publicly denounced that Giammattei and the attorney general and head of the Public Ministry, consuelo porrasthey would try to fabricate a case against him to silence the investigations of his medium.

In 2021, Zamora Marroquín received from the King of Spain, Felipe VIthe prize for the outstanding medium of Latin Americafor the investigative work that The newspaper held for almost 30 years, until its closure on May 15.

Source: Elcomercio

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