The brother of Guatemala's former vice president Roxana Baldetti and 12 others were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of fraud involving contracting an Israeli company to clean up a touristy lake, police said, according to AFP.
Mario Baldetti and the others, several of whom were former government workers, were accused of wrongdoing by the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a United Nations-backed body whose investigations into corruption helped bring down the country's previous government last year.
Roxana Baldetti and former president Otto Perez are in jail pending a possible trial on charges they were involved in a ring in which senior officials accepted bribes in return for cutting import duties for several companies.