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Guatemalan Court Rules For Return Of Anti-Graft Chief

by VOA News

   Guatemala's constitutional court has ruled that the country's president
   must allow the head of a United Nations-backed anti-graft commission
   back into the country.

   The court ruled late Sunday that President Jimmy Morales must let Ivan
   Velasquez, the chief of the International Commission Against Impunity
   in Guatemala, or CICIG, return to Guatemala.

   The president came under international condemnation when he announced
   earlier this month that he was shuttering CICIG and barring Velasquez
   from the country.

   Velasquez had conducted a number of high-profile corruption
   investigations, include one pending against the president.

   Morales said Velasquez is "a person who attacks order and public
   security in the country."