The Special Prosecutor’s Office against Impunity (FECI) reported this Friday, March 24, that it requested an arrest warrant against the Swiss citizen Ulrich Gurtner Kappeler for the possible crime of laundering money or other assets in a new case of corruption and impunity that is under investigation, which was called Fedecocagua.
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The head of the FECI, Rafael Curruchichethrough a video published on the social networks of the Public Ministry, indicated that the amount defrauded by the Swiss citizen, general manager of the Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives of Coffee Producers of Guatemala (Fedecocagua) would be Q1 billion for the alleged Simulation of buying and selling coffee using front companies.
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The head of the FECI, Rafael Curruchiche, indicated that the defrauded amount would be Q1 billion for the alleged simulation of buying and selling coffee.
According to the official, the investigation determined that the directors of the federation carried out the simulation of coffee purchase and sale operations and invoiced the coffee of the small cooperatives to later simulate the payment of invoices that returned to accounts linked to the directors.
Ulrich Gurtner Kappeler was transferred to the Court Tower where he awaits to be presented before a judge. He assured that he does not know the reasons for his arrest, but that he makes himself available to the authorities.
Fedecocagua had been investigated by CICIG
He added that the FECI will undertake the respective legal actions against the ex-commissioner of the extinct International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), Francisco Javier Dallanese Ruiz, who, abusing his position, on January 17, 2012, sent a note to the person indicated to let him know that the CICIG had conducted an investigation into accounting records, concluding that there were no indications of the crime of money laundering.
“It is incomprehensible how an entity like CICIG tried to certify Mr. Ulrich Gurtner Kappeler’s impunity,” questioned the official, adding that his predecessor at FECI was aware of these events, Juan Francisco Sandoval.
Linked to the case and to Ulrich Gurtner Kappeler
Among those linked to this case is Jose Ruben Zamora Marroquin who received a payment of one million dollars from Fedecocagua, so that he would not publish anything about him in the section el peladero.
Also on the payroll of said entity was the alleged journalist Daniel Hearing Keenanwho received a monthly salary in exchange for improving the image of Fedecocagua and not to publicize the investigations against Kappeler and Fedecocagua.
Former FECI prosecutor Juan Francisco Sandoval Alfaro who, having the investigations in his hand, decided to hide the file and delay the case for the benefit of Fedecocagua in exchange for a juicy amount of money.
The arrest warrant against the other executives of Fedecocagua in which they are found has not yet been ruled out Italo Antoniotti and Gerardo de León.
This entity and its directors were linked to the murders of Rodrigo Rosenberg, Kalil Mussa and Marjori Mussa.
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