One of Guatemala's top judges, a key figure in the fight against corruption, said on Monday that she had resigned amid threats and pressure related to her work, in a blow to the stuttering fight against impunity in the Central American country.
Judge Erika Aifan played a vital role in the anti-graft push led by a U.N.-backed anti-corruption body that had been kicked out of the country in 2019. Human Rights Watch said Aifan's departure would hurt Guatemala's judicial system.
Salvadoran newspaper El Faro reported that Aifan had fled to the United States, joining a growing list of anti-corruption prosecutors, investigators and judges who have been fired or quit, citing harassment from the upper echelons of power. For years she supported the work of the U.N. anti-corruption body known as CICIG, which launched investigations, including one that lead to the resignation of a sitting president in 2015.
One such important corruption case involved the top magistrates of the Supreme Court and another was against powerful businessmen accused of electoral financing.
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