GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala’s Attorney General’s office formally requested Friday that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and others be stripped of their immunity so it can investigate them for allegedly encouraging the student occupation of the country’s only public university.
Sánchez formally requested that immunity be lifted for Arévalo, Vice President-elect Karin Herrera, three lawmakers and a deputy-elect from the Seed Movement.
Stripping them of immunity allows prosecutors to pursue a formal investigation.
Among the crimes prosecutors plan to pursue against Arévalo and others in the new case are exploitation of cultural assets, influence peddling and illegal association.
A judge suspended the party at prosecutors’ request.
Persons:
—, Bernardo Arévalo, Ángel Saúl Sánchez, Sánchez, Karin Herrera, Arévalo, Walter Mazariegos, General's, Alejandro Balsells, doesn’t, ” Balsells, Consuelo Porras, Alejandro Giammattei
Organizations:
GUATEMALA CITY, Cultural, Arévalo’s, Movement, Seed, San Carlos University, U.S . State Department, U.S ., United Nations, Organization of American, Arévalo, Observers
Locations:
GUATEMALA, Guatemala