Guatemala court blocks expulsion of UN anti-graft chief

Guatemala's Constitutional Court, blocked President Jimmy Morales' order to expel the head of a UN anti-corruption commission that is investigating his campaign financing.

Fransisco de Mata, the president of the court, said on Sunday that it had issued a temporary injunction blocking the order to expel Ivan Velasquez, head of the UN International Committee Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).

The court will now analyse the case before reaching a definitive decision. It was not clear how long that would take.

Morales had earlier said in a video posted on Twitter that the expulsion was "in the interests of the Guatemalan people, for the strengthening of the rule of law and our institutions".

UCJ, UNILORIN.