Less than a month after the attorney general’s office (AG) and the United Nations-backed International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (Cicig) requested that President Jimmy Morales be investigated for illegal campaign finance, he is facing the threat of fresh legal action. Last week the AG presented the supreme court (CSJ) (which authorised the previous request, subsequently rejected by the legislature) with another request, this time in relation to a bonus that Morales received from the military which is not officially part of his salary package. The call, which has subjected Morales’ links to the military to fresh scrutiny, comes as the opposition and civil-society groups are flagging up concerns about increasing responsibilities taken on by the defence ministry at the expense of other ministerial departments.End of preview - This article contains approximately 641 words.
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