According to local media, prosecutors asked US officials for information in April regarding the organization’s purported role in child smuggling across the border.
Save the Children refuted the accusations made by the prosecutors, saying that it was “aware of the activity” at their offices.
The nation’s attorney general, Consuelo Porras, and the case’s prosecutor, Rafael Curruchiche, have both previously faced sanctions from the US and the EU for their attacks on democracy.
Curruciche, the shock winner in the Guatemalan referendum against corruption, was forbidden entering the US by the attorney general of Guatemala, who claimed that searches were being conducted in several places.
Although a representative for the prosecutor’s office confirmed to the news agency that Save the Children’s offices were searched, the prosecutor did not identify the organization in his statement.
Save the Children maintained that although it was working with the authorities, it had “never facilitated any transfer of children or adolescents out of Guatemala” in a statement to the news.
“Following previous allegations against our organisation this year, no evidence of wrongdoing was found” , the organization stated.
The charity organization expressed earlier this year that it was “shocked and puzzled” by the raid on its main office in connection with the same issue.
