Guatemala: Former CCI Facilitator Arrested; Former WHFC Facilitator Adds Conspiracy Charge to Illegal Adoption Charges

According to a March 29, 2011 press release, Marvin Bran Joshua Galindo aka Marvin Bran, former CCI facilitator, has been arrested. An additional charge of conspiracy has been added to Alma Beatriz Valle Flores de Mejía’s, former WHFC facilitator, list of charges. She had previously been charged with trafficking and use of forged documents.

The Google Translation of the Press Release is as follows:

“017 PRESS RELEASE

SYNDICATED ORDERED TO PRISON IN CASE OF ILLEGAL ADOPTION

Guatemala, March 29, 2011. The Fourth Court of First Instance Criminal
Court overturned the order of freedom in favor of Marvin Bran Joshua
Galindo, accused of participating in illegal adoption procedures, and
ordered their immediate arrest for tampering with a witness to testify
in his favor.

The decision of the judiciary is derived from the request of the Special
Prosecutor Unit Support CICIG UEFAC-prosecutors, who sought to revoke
the alternatives that were awarded to Bran Galindo to regain their
freedom after being linked to process of trafficking and conspiracy.

Among the means of conviction that the Public Ministry (MP) introduced
the measure is highlighted in a statement from the witness, who stated
that the accused gave him a manuscript in which the guidelines said that
she had declared for ex blame him the accusations.

Add offense
In a second hearing and the same process, the said court added the crime
of conspiracy to Alma Beatriz Valle Flores de Mejía, syndicated
processes involved in illegal adoptions. This is in addition to
trafficking and use of forged documents, for which he was prosecuted to
the first statement.

As syndicated apologized for failing to appear at the hearing for
alleged ill health, the judge ordered that he have a medical report to
determine the veracity of his apology, and it is found otherwise the
judge indicated that preventive detention would be ordered.”

CICIG Press Release in Spanish is available at CICIG

Alma’s PoundPup Legacy file can be found here.

Marvin’s PoundPup Legacy file can be found here.

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