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Giammattei, who ran for president in 2007, was jailed on a military base for his own safety but said his arrest was politically motivated. As head of prisons he helped plan the September 2006 storming of the sprawling Pavon prison farm outside the capital. The jail had ostensibly been controlled by prisoners for a decade with guards only patrolling the perimeter while allowing inmates to build private houses, restaurants, video arcades and even hard-drug laboratories on the inside. The raid, carried out by thousands of police and soldiers backed up by helicopters, was touted at the time as a bold government crackdown on organized crime. Authorities said the prisoners were heavily armed and died in a shootout, although no police were injured. Guatemalan prosecutors, backed by an independent U.N. panel charged with investigating official corruption in the Central American country, found former officials singled out prison leaders for execution. 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