FILE PHOTO: Javier Duarte de Ochoa, former governor of Mexican state Veracruz, gestures from inside a vehicle while leaving after a court appearance for extradition proceedings in Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 4, 2017. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria/ File Photo
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala is ready to turn over to Mexico next week a former state governor wanted on charges of embezzlement and organised crime, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, in a case that further tarnished the Mexican ruling party's record on corruption.
Javier Duarte, who governed the Gulf state of Veracruz for President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) until last year, could be returned to Mexico on July 17, Guatemalan foreign ministry spokesman Tekandi Paniagua said.
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