Guatemala City, Guatemala (CNN) -- Two fugitive brothers wanted in the much-publicized slaying of a Guatemalan lawyer last year were being held at a military base Tuesday, one day after they surrendered to authorities with a special United Nations commission, the Guatemalan Defense Ministry said. Businessmen Francisco Jose Ramon Valdes Paiz and Jose Estuardo Valdes Paiz had been sought since December on charges that they masterminded the assassination of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg. The lawyer left behind a videotape saying that President Alvaro Colom would be responsible if anything happened to him. The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, known by its Spanish acronym CICIG, determined that Rosenberg orchestrated his own death in order to implicate Colom, whom he blamed for the recent slayings of two close friends.
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Brothers turned themselves in to special U.N. commission in Guatemala
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They are being held at a military base
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Lawyer staged his own death last year, investigation shows
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He hired brothers but they didn't know he was targeting himself, probe finds
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