Portillo was put on a plane on Friday May 24,2013 under the escort of US agents
"Hasta luego (see you later), people of Guatemala," Portillo, 61, said, after describing his extradition as a "kidnapping" and accusing the Guatemalan government of breaking the law
Alfonso Portillo was president from 2000 to 2004.
Following a request from a New York court, he was arrested in January 2010 as he was trying to flee to Belize. Portillo has described the case against him as a "political persecution".
Portillo was indicted by a US grand jury on charges of embezzling tens of millions of dollars of public funds and laundering the money through US and European banks, including $1.5m intended for Guatemalan school children.
In 2011, a Guatemalan court acquitted Portillo and two of his former ministers of conspiring to embezzle $15m from the Defense Ministry in 2001. His acquittal was confirmed by an appeals court in April
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