Guatemalan Ex Minister of
Government Probed
GUATEMALA - Former deputy Minister of
Government Marlene White is under
investigation for alleged connections to a
criminal gang in Guatemala, reported on
Sunday Prensa Libre daily.
The daily ensures that the research is
carried out by the International Commission
against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and
the Office of Administrative Offences.
Banco, who also headed National Civil Police
(PNC) office, has been apparently out of the
country since one month ago.
According to the report, CICIG is looking
for at least 12 policemen members of the
security corps of Blanco, suspected of
committing various crimes when they were at
her service.
So far, five people were arrested, only two
of them publicly identified, charged with
conspiracy, kidnapping and forced
disappearance.
Those captured were least 38 members of two
groups that were under the command of Blanco
set up in 2008 and 2009, one of them made up
of members of the PNC and the other combined
with civilians, according to the newspaper.
Allegedly, both groups were engaged in
criminal and clandestine activities.
The then director general of the PNC
Porfirio Perez broke up the groups in July
2009, but his successor, Baltazar Gomez,
reinstated the dismissed at the request of
Blanco.
Both Perez and Gomez are in prison for
leading separate bands of organized crime,
mainly drug-related.
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