The National Court has ordered the pre-trial detention of businessman William Anthony Schwank López pending a decision on his extradition to Guatemala, a country that claims him, considering that he was one of those responsible for having arranged the payment of 30 million dollars in commissions to intermediaries and public officials of this Central American country, among them former Guatemalan president Otto Pérez Molina and his number two Roxana Baldetti.
In exchange for this important bribe, the businessman Schwank López and the rest of those involved in this corruption case, which is also being investigated by the National High Court in the framework of the ‘Villarejo case’, would have obtained a contract for the construction of a container terminal in Puerto Quetzal, located on the Pacific coast, for the Spanish shipping company Grup Maritim TCBowned by the Pérez-Maura brothers.
€12.6 million
Now Guatemala has a period of 30 days to formalize the demand for the delivery of the detainee, whose name appears in one of the recordings of José Manuel Villarejo. According to the Tax Agency, the commissioner collected together with his partner Enrique Maestre a total of 12.6 million euros from Pérez-Maura companies.
The arrested William Anthony Schwank López is one of the people still wanted and arrested, and his arrest in Spain could allow the magistrates Manuel García Castellón and Joaquín Gadea Francés interrogate him in the separate piece called ‘Pit’ of the Tandem case.
In the National High Court, the shipping company Ángel Marcelino Pérez-Maura is being investigated for crimes of corruption in international transactions, bribery, illicit association and fraud for hiring Villarejo to stop the extradition. The anti-corruption prosecutor considers that they received these funds in exchange for preventing the delivery of Ángel Pérez-Maura to Guatemala.
One million dollars
The Spanish magistrates follow the trail of an alleged donation of a million dollars that Ángel Pérez-Maura made to the Spanish businessman Juan José Suárez, who remains in prison in Guatemala for the alleged bribes paid to the authorities of this Central American country by a company of the Pérez y Cía Group, according to what he said ‘The reason‘.
The Spanish shipping companies received a letter from the Spanish prisoner on October 21, 2016, in which he assured that he remained in prison “for following instructions without ever questioning them”. He also maintained that he demonstrated his “loyalty by resigning, because you have asked me to do so, even what would be the fastest way out of this unfair situation for me & rdquor ;.
Judge Gadea Francés considers that this could be the reason why Ángel Pérez-Maura reached an agreement to financially support the prisoner, for which transferred one million dollars to Bulgaria in the name of his wife, Alejandra Ochoa Probst.