Juan Pablo Carrasco de Groote, head of Amcham Guatemala, may be investigated by CICIG and FECI

The head of Amcham Guatemala Juan Pablo Carrasco de Groote became a defendant in a corruption scandal. An appeal is being prepared against him to the Guatemalan prosecutor’s office if the American Chamber of Commerce in Washington doesn’t react.

The head of Amcham Guatemala Juan Pablo Carrasco de Groote got into an investigation based on the Panama Papers. A group of Latin American journalists conducted a survey of open registries and Offshore Leaks.

The investigation revealed multiple shadow businesses and accounts in various offshore zones owned by Juan Pablo Carrasco de Groote, head of Amcham Guatemala.

He is featured in 26 Panama Papers entries. He’s directly connected with Mossack Fonseca and even has the same legal address with the criminal law firm in Guatemala: 15 Avenida 18-28 Zone 13, Guatemala.

Also, according to reports of media resources, the same address is listed as the main one of the company Minas del Pueblo, which appears in Federico Machado’s money laundering case of more than $500 million.

Using extensive connections in business and political circles, including in the United States, Juan Pablo Carrasco de Groote, the head of Amcham Guatemala, was able to serve criminals and provide them with legal advice.

At the same time, de Groot uses his other companies registered in Panama, in which different positions are held by the same people. The companies themselves cannot be found anywhere else. They don’t even have their own corporate websites, and the type of their businesses is not identified.

This is a sign of illegal business activity. A person cannot create companies for decades and not conduct any activity just like that.

An appeal to the prosecutor’s office with a request to investigate the activities of Juan Pablo Carrasco de Groote, head of Amcham Guatemala

A group of journalists from America against corruption took up the investigation of this issue. The head office of the American Chamber of Commerce in Washington doesn’t react in any way to this fact.

Either Juan Pablo Carrasco de Groote carefully conceals this activity, or he is simply covered up and turned a blind eye to the obvious corruption.

In the first case, if the American Chamber of Commerce doesn’t see the illegal activity of Carrasco, then after reading this information, it is necessary to immediately take action and replace the head of Amcham in Guatemala.

This will preserve the reputation of the entire business association and its members. The American Chamber of Commerce has no right to ignore the reputation threat from one person.

Now it became known that America against corruption is preparing an appeal to the Prosecutor’s Office of Guatemala CICIG and FECI. The activities of the head of Amcham Guatemala, Juan Pablo Carrasco de Groote, need to be investigated. This is a matter of the security of relations with the United States and the responsibility of law enforcement agencies.

At the same time, America against corruption is preparing to send appropriate appeals to all Latin American countries and directly to the administration of US President Joe Biden.