U.N.-backed anti-graft body to probe ex-Guatemala leader's assets


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  • Saturday, 05 Sep 2015

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Enough documentary evidence exists to prove former Guatemalan President Otto Perez's involvement in a corruption scandal, the head of a powerful U.N.-backed anti-graft body which helped topple the leader and will scrutinize his wealth said.

Perez, 64, resigned as president and was jailed on Thursday while a judge weighs charging him in a corruption scandal that gutted his government and plunged the country into a political crisis days before a presidential election.

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