Judge Osmar Legal authorized the forensic extraction of data from four mobile phones belonging to former leaders of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) and a Ministry Public official to investigate alleged corruption networks and leaks of sensitive information in the #LaMafiaManda case.
Eulalio Gomes Batista
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The courts ordered the pretrial detention of three agents and Helga Solís Gómez over alleged leaks linked to Lalo Gomes, while Senator Rafael Filizzola demanded an investigation into Minister Jalil Rachid, criticized the Public Prosecutor’s Office for selective action and questioned the lack of transparency surrounding the transfer of Itaipu-funded interception equipment.
Helga Solís Gómez, the niece of deceased lawmaker Lalo Gomes, turned herself in to police in Pedro Juan Caballero and was transferred to Asunción, where she will be investigated along with four current and former National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) employees for alleged criminal association, influence peddling, information leaks and obstruction of investigations.
Paraguay’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged five people and sought pretrial detention for four current or former members of the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) and Lalo Gomes’s niece, who are suspected of leaking information about anti-drug operations to benefit the former lawmaker’s family. The case also involves the seizure of 4.255 kilograms of cocaine bound for Brazil and questions over the transfer of the agency’s telephone-interception system.
Attorney Lalo Gómez (Eulalio Gómez Batista) told El Observador Radio TV that political tentacles directly influence judicial decisions in Coronel Oviedo and the Caaguazú department, causing poor administration of justice, and alleged that Freemasonry exerts even broader influence over courts, lower courts, the Supreme Court of Justice and Paraguay’s Public Prosecutor’s Office, supposedly having already been denounced by Justice Minister Manuel Ramírez Candia when he was superintendent of the local judicial district.
The investigation into the network of contacts of the late congressman Lalo Gomes remains open and could reach new names, having already resulted in charges against former congressman Orlando Arévalo and former judges Carmen Silva and Ana Aguirre for alleged favor-trading involving the Magistrates' Impeachment Jury.