危地马拉总统洗清谋杀案嫌疑

A UN investigation¹ has cleared Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom of involvement in the murder of a prominent lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg.

一个联合国调查机构澄清，危地马拉总统科洛姆与一位著名律师罗德里格·罗森伯格的谋杀案无关。

Mr Colom has always denied playing any role in lawyer's murder

Mr Rosenberg, who died last May, had warned in a video that he would be killed on the orders of the president.

Now UN investigator² Carlos Castresana says Mr Rosenberg ordered his own assassination³.

He added that the lawyer's own cousins carried it out without knowing Mr Rosenberg was the victim受害人，牺牲品.

He was shot dead days after recording⁴ a video saying the president was out to kill him, and would be responsible if he were found dead.

Investigators⁵ now believe that Mr Rosenberg asked cousins of his first wife to help him contact a hitman职业杀手.

He then fed information to his killers⁶, using a second mobile phone to leave himself threatening messages.

'Distraught'

The newspaper The Guatemala Times says he was distraught发狂的，心烦意乱的 over what he claimed were murders and money-laundering by the president and his aides.

The paper adds that he may have planned his own death to topple颠覆，推翻 the government.

Mr Colom has always denied any involvement in the killing⁷.

He suggested that both the murder and the video were a reaction to his attempts to tackle organised crime.

The investigation was carried out by the UN agency known as the International Commission against Impunity无患，免罚 in Guatemala (CICIG).

The commission was created in 2007 to tackle widespread corruption⁹ in the country.