Julio Suárez

Julio Roberto Suárez Guerra is a Guatemalan banker who served as the president of the Bank of Guatemala from 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2018. He spent the majority of his term detained, relating to a large-scale fraud case, of which he was cleared on appeal in July 2019.

Career Suárez obtained a degree from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. From 2002 to 2005 he worked for the Central American Bank for Economic Integration. Suárez also worked as the Guatemalan representative to the International Monetary Fund. Suárez himself was accused of fraud. On 26 September 2018 he, and eleven others, were convicted of fraud and sentenced to six years and 3 months imprisonment. On 5 July 2019 an appeal led to the clearing of the charges against Suárez.