GUATEMALA CITY: Nine Guatemalan businessmen who were sentenced on Wednesday for paying bribes to receive public contracts will have to build roads and a school in the Central American country as part of their punishment, according to a UN-backed anti-corruption body.
The businessmen were implicated in a web of corruption exposed last year by the Guatemalan prosecutor’s office and the UN-backed International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) that took place during the administration of former infrastructure minister Alejandro Sinibaldi, who is still at large.
In addition, as a group, they will have to repair and construct at least six roads and build a school in a rural area of the impoverished country, according to the CICIG. Lawyers for the businessmen could not immediately be reached for comment.
