Former Guatemalan leader Alfonso Portillo was arrested following a US extradition request related to charges of money-laundering during his 2000-2004 presidency, officials said. Two days after police searched for him at two homes in Guatemala City, Portillo, 58, was tracked down at the northeastern beach resort of Punta de Palma on the Caribbean coast, said Attorney General Velasquez Zarate. Portillo ...

Former Guatemalan leader Alfonso Portillo was arrested Tuesday following a US extradition request related to charges of money-laundering during his 2000-2004 presidency, officials said. Two days after police searched for him at two homes in Guatemala City, Portillo, 58, was tracked down at the northeastern beach resort of Punta de Palma on the Caribbean coast, said Attorney General Velasquez Zarate ...

Alfonso Portillo, the fugitive former president of Guatemala, was charged in the United States on Monday with using foreign banks to launder millions of dollars plundered from charity and government coffers. Portillo, 58, is accused of "converting the office of the Guatemalan presidency into his personal ATM," U.S. Attorney ...

US prosecutors on Monday charged Guatemala's fugitive former president, Alfonso Portillo, with laundering millions of dollars he embezzled while in office. Portillo, who was president from 2000-2004, "embezzled tens of million of dollars worth of public funds, a portion of which he then laundered through bank accounts located, among other places, in the United States and Europe," the grand ...