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Guatemala to extradite ex-leader Alfonso Portillo to US
Published: 18th Mar 2010 04:26:50
A criminal court in Guatemala has agreed to extradite former President Alfonso Portillo to the US where he faces money-laundering charges.
He was arrested in January following US charges that he had laundered money stolen from a children's charity and embezzled state funds.
He has since been held in a high-security prison in Guatemala City.
Mr Portillo, 58, has repeatedly denied the charges levelled against him, which he says are political.
He fled to Mexico after his term finished in 2004 but was sent back in 2008 to face corruption charges.
The former president "embezzled tens of million of dollars worth of public funds, a portion of which he then laundered through bank accounts in the US and Europe", a New York grand jury indictment said in February.
He has also been accused by Guatemalan authorities over the disappearance of $15m (£9.2m) earmarked for the Guatemalan defence department.
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BBC News, 2010. Guatemala to extradite ex-leader Alfonso Portillo to US . [Online] (Updated 18 Mar 2010)Available at: http://www.manchesterwired.co.uk/news.php/45266-Guatemala-to-extradite-ex-leader-Alfonso-Portillo-to-US [Accessed 22nd May 2013]
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