The Public Prosecutor's Office formally charged former congressman Orlando Arévalo with aggravated passive bribery in the #LaMafiaManda case, for allegedly accepting checks worth Gs. 202,000,000 as loan collateral in exchange for favoring prosecutor Stella Mary Cano in a disciplinary proceeding before the JEM.
Humberto Otazú
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The Court of Appeal on Monday, the 15th, rejected the challenge filed by the accused Damián de Jesús Galarza Dárdano in the case against the mayor of Quyquyhó, Patricia Corvalán, and 13 others charged with embezzlement, money laundering, and criminal association. The court confirmed Judge Humberto Otazú as the presiding judge and urged him to impose disciplinary sanctions on defendants who use delaying tactics to stall the proceedings.
The Criminal Appeals Court of Paraguay unanimously dismissed the habeas data petition filed by businessman Iván Pergher Bruneta against the newspaper Última Hora, ruling that the right to be forgotten does not exist in Paraguayan law and that media outlets cannot be compelled to remove journalistic publications through this constitutional remedy.
Judicial clerk Antonia Galeano, a defendant in the so-called Ankle Bracelet Mafia case, will remain under house arrest but without an electronic ankle monitor, as she can no longer afford the equipment, according to a ruling by Judge Humberto Otazú.
The defense team of former minister Arnoldo Wiens appealed the definitive acquittal of fellow former minister Ramón Jiménez Gaona and challenged two members of the Court of Appeals in the Metrobús case.
Judge Humberto Otazú, of the Criminal Court of Guarantees Specialized in Economic Crimes, rejected the defense appeal of former minister Arnoldo Wiens and upheld the charges against him in the Metrobús case, concerning alleged acts of public corruption linked to the transportation project.
Criminal guarantees judge Humberto Otazú elevated to oral trial the case against former justice of the peace Liliana González de Bristot and ten other defendants for alleged participation in a network that used fake promissory notes to enforce fraudulent seizures. At the same hearing, former court officer Óscar Frutos was sentenced to two years in prison in an abbreviated proceeding.
Paraguay's Public Ministry filed a formal accusation against former prosecutor Egidia Victoria Gómez Denis, for allegedly receiving bribes and delaying investigations to benefit a drug trafficker arrested with 1.3 kg of cocaine.
Judge Humberto Otazú, presiding over the Specialized Economic Crimes Penal Guarantees Court of Asunción, scheduled a preliminary hearing for June 3, 4, and 5 for Colorado Party deputy Esteban Samaniego, his wife and current mayor of Quyquyhó, Patricia Corvalán, his mother Blanca Álvarez, and 13 others, on allegations of illicit enrichment that allegedly caused losses of G. 338.6 million to municipal coffers between 2011 and 2017.