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CORRECTION APPENDED: A Guatemalan corruption scandal that toppled a presidential administration and led to the arrest of a former head-of-state has drawn scrutiny of transactions made within the United States. In the year since the arrest of former President Otto Perez Molina for his purported role in granting discounted tariffs to importers and managing a smuggling ring used to transport goods in exchange for tens of millions of dollars in bribe payments, allegations of financial misconduct by Guatemala's political elite have only grown. The former head-of-state and his once-vice president, Roxanna Baldetti, remain in custody along with more than two...