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A judge in Guatemala sends critical journalist José Rubén Zamora to preventive detention

2022-08-10T16:44:28.118Z


The president of the newspaper 'elPeriódico', which has been documenting corruption in the country for decades, assures that the process is a "montage" designed by the president against him


Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, this Tuesday after his indictment. Esteban Biba (EFE)

Journalist José Rubén Zamora, founder of

elPeriódico

of Guatemala, was charged on Tuesday for the accusation of money laundering that the Prosecutor's Office has made against him.

Detained since July 29, when the authorities ordered his arrest and the search of the newspaper's offices, Zamora will remain in preventive detention by decision of the criminal judge handling the case.

Founder, director and president of the critical newspaper against the government of Alejandro Giammatei, Zamora is accused of money laundering, blackmail and influence peddling.

The journalist has affirmed that the entire process is a "setup" ordered by the president, whom he has indicated in statements to this newspaper of launching a political persecution due to the publications made by his newspaper, which document abuses of power by the president and officials. nearby.

The newspaper

elPeriódico

was born in 1996 under the leadership of Zamora, a 66-year-old engineer by training.

In the last decade, the newspaper revealed hundreds of acts of corruption in the governments of Otto Pérez Molina and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti (2012-2015), but also in the administrations of Jimmy Morales (2016-2020) and of the same Giammattei.

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Source: elparis

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