Juan Jimenez, spokesman of the OAS Mission to Support the Fight Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH), speaks during a news conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduras January 24, 2018. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - An anti-graft body backed by the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday accused the Honduran congress of blocking its investigations into a corruption racket that allegedly involves lawmakers and high-level officials.
The OAS Mission to Support the Fight Against Corruption and Impunity in Honduras (MACCIH), unveiled by the Central American nation's President Juan Orlando Hernandez in 2015, said that a recently passed law will prevent the prosecutor's office from investigating and charging dozens of possible suspects involved in a graft scheme.
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