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Lawyer and activist María Esther Roa, a member of the Coordinadora de Abogados del Paraguay and Somos Anticorrupción Paraguay, accused the Public Prosecutor’s Office and ministers of Paraguay’s Supreme Court of failures and possible favoritism. She cited officials’ salaries and family ties—including María Verónica Lina Sienra Bertón, Analía Carrillo and relatives of Carolina Llanes—compared corrupt judges with members of the First Capital Command (PCC), and advocated structural reform with more resources and protection for investigators.

Operation Mirage detained five Brazilians in La Paloma, Canindeyú, and seized weapons, ammunition, electronic devices and two vehicles reported stolen in Brazil. Police are investigating possible links to the PCC and counterfeit medicines.

Paraguay's National Police arrested two Brazilian citizens suspected of belonging to the First Capital Command (PCC) criminal faction in Ciudad del Este. One was using a false identity and had an international arrest warrant for drug trafficking. They entered the country from Argentina clandestinely and were presumed to be planning to cross illegally into Argentina.

An anti-drug operation in Paraguay resulted in only one person accused and raised questions about the deaths of two indigenous men, whose official confrontation version is rejected by the community alleging execution.

Police operations in Paraguay resulted in the death of a PCC inmate in a prison, the arrest of suspects linked to the faction and drug trafficking in several cities, the seizure of drugs and luxury goods, and the interception in Bolivia of a bus carrying marijuana that displayed the name of São Paulo.

During a televised debate, Paraguay's Interior Minister Enrique Riera accused criminologist Juan Martens of having links to organized crime after he linked a fatal attack on a police station to corruption and the actions of criminal factions in the Canindeyú department.

Operation Hawala has arrested 10 people for laundering R$ 100 million for criminal factions and is investigating evidence of a link to Al-Qaeda in the Triple Frontier region.

International political analyst Héctor Sosa Gennaro stated that Paraguay is falling behind in strategy, training, and technology to confront transnational criminal factions such as the PCC and the Comando Vermelho, both designated by the United States as global terrorist organizations, and criticized the lack of concrete results from the cooperation agreement signed in March between Presidents Santiago Peña and Donald Trump.

Following the detection of an unauthorized drone flying over Module 7 of the Minga Guazú Penitentiary, where members of the PCC and Miguel Ángel Insfrán are held, a search conducted by authorities found no illegal items at the site.

Paraguay's National Police have reinforced security at Guaraní International Airport in Minga Guazú after an intelligence alert about a planned large-scale heist. The criminal group, comprising 17 to 25 heavily armed members, is said to target shipments of electronics, medicines, and cash. Preventive measures focus on nighttime hours, especially Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.