Paraguayan anti-drug chief Jalil Rachid wants to identify possible local connections following operations in Bolivia. Bolivia’s government accuses the attorney general of leading an organization that allegedly protected drug trafficking; the accusation is not a conviction.
Arnaldo Giuzzio
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The trials of former minister Arnaldo Giuzzio, accused of aggravated passive bribery, and former Ciudad del Este mayor Miguel Prieto, accused of alleged breach of trust in the purchase of food baskets, have resumed in Paraguay.
The September 2021 murder of Mauricio Schuartzman in Asunción converged with Operation Smart and the A Ultranza investigation into an international cocaine-trafficking and money-laundering network attributed by authorities to Sebastián Marset and Miguel Insfrán, leading to the operation’s launch five months later.
Paraguay’s attorney general and the Association of Prosecutors asked for preventive protection for Verónica Valdez and Jorge Arce after an exchange with Arnaldo Giuzzio during his trial. Giuzzio denies that he threatened them, describing the exchange as a forceful complaint about the handling of allegations involving former president Horacio Cartes.
Prosecutor Jorge Arce, who was part of the team that requested the dismissal of charges against Horacio Cartes, has been assigned to investigate President Santiago Peña for alleged illicit enrichment, money laundering, and other crimes.