By Carlos Dada
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Otto Pérez Molina, who resigned as the President of Guatemala on Wednesday, spent Thursday morning in a Guatemala City courtroom, where the Public Ministry formally charged him with “being part of a criminal organization, with the purpose of defrauding the state.” From the courtroom, he was escorted to a military prison. Prosecutors claim that, along with former Vice-President Roxana Baldetti, Pérez Molina received fifty per cent of the profits of a customs-fraud operation, known as La Linea, that was run by government officials. Baldetti resigned in May, after the first arrests were made, and is also in jail awaiting trial.