NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. federal charges he laundered millions of dollars of government money through U.S. and European bank accounts.
A grand jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan indicted Portillo in 2009, accusing him of laundering tens of millions of dollars that it said he embezzled from the Guatemalan government.
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