Miguel Prieto’s defense said at the Tía Chela trial that it will present suppliers, records and other documents to prove the delivery of 25,000 food kits during the pandemic, while challenging the alleged loss of G. 2.13 billion and the corruption charges.
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Alfredo Benítez remains director of Administrative Management at Paraguay’s postal service while awaiting a hearing on the conditional suspension of proceedings in which he is accused of falsifying notices in 19 enforcement lawsuits. The measure would include G. 100 million in restitution and avoid an oral trial without amounting to an acquittal.
Former mayor Miguel Prieto will stand trial in the Tajy Case after admissions by former collaborators, while his party denounces political persecution and expands international operations.
Paraguayan courts have definitively acquitted former Lambaré mayor Guido González of charges related to the deaths of two soldiers swept away by a flash flood in 2023, after the Public Ministry requested dismissal due to lack of evidence to hold him criminally responsible.
Judge Humberto Otazú decided to send former Ciudad del Este mayor Miguel Prieto and six other defendants to trial on charges related to food purchases during the pandemic that, according to the Public Prosecutor's Office, caused a loss of G. 306,188,500. Prieto denies any wrongdoing and says the case is politically motivated.
Delia Patricia Samudio, former head of Petropar, and her husband, José Costa Perdomo, were sent to prison to serve the sentences imposed in the Tonic Water case.