BOGOTA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala’s attorney general’s office announced arrest warrants on Monday for a group of people including Colombia’s attorney general and a former UN anti-corruption prosecutor, drawing condemnation from the foreign ministry in Bogota.

In a video on social media, the head of Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity Rafael Curruchiche said a Guatemalan court had issued arrest warrants for Colombia’s Attorney General Luz Adriana Camargo and Ivan Velasquez, a veteran Colombian prosecutor, on corruption charges.

Curruchiche alleged in the video that Velasquez led a “criminal structure” that benefited businessmen from the Brazilian construction company formerly known as Odebrecht.

Camargo and Velasquez were charged with criminal association, obs

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