Prosecutors Belinda Bobadilla, Jorge Arce, and Leonardi Guerrero, from the Specialized Unit in Economic and Anti-Corruption Crimes, formalized three new indictment records that expand the investigation into the network known as the 'promissory note mafia.' The charges include misconduct, and production and use of false public documents.
The Public Prosecutor's Office hypothesis is that the scheme operated systematically between 2022 and 2024 to favor collection companies through express garnishments based on promissory notes, leaving thousands of citizens unprotected.
The first indictment stems from an internal audit that detected irregularities in 119 cases from the Peace Court of La Catedral, Second Shift. The main accused is former judge Nathalia Guadalupe Garcete Aquino, already removed from office by the Jury for the Trial of Magistrates (JEM). Also charged were former civil servants Olivia Mosqueda, Pablo Cabrera, former bailiff Mariam Ortíz, and bailiff Víctor Hugo Rotela. Additionally, the Prosecutor's Office indicted lawyers Édgar Fabián Ayala Melo, Juan Alberto Bogado, and César Rubén Bogarin Alen, representatives of CARSA, and Sun Young Bang, from Plan Urbano S.A., for alleged involvement in processing the suspicious notifications and instruments.
The other two cases involve the Peace Court of La Encarnación, in cases No. 133/2025 and No. 135/2025. In the first, 25 cases linked to Global Enterprises Paraguay S.A. were audited, with presiding judge Carmen Analía Cibils Miñarro charged as the perpetrator of misconduct, along with civil servants Martina Elsa Rivela Santacruz and Ricardo Ramón Cuevas.
In the second case, after reviewing 654 cases related to PH Sociedad Anónima (Tucumán), bailiff Audrey Jazmín Galeano Mora was charged — for certifying simultaneous false notifications that were physically impossible to carry out — and corporate lawyer Thalia Desiree Benítez Faría, as an instigator. As Judge Cibils Miñarro is suspended, the Public Prosecutor's Office has already requested her removal from the case.
After the formalization of the complaints, the prosecutors uniformly requested the admission of the cases and immediate notification of the parties to begin the preparatory stage. The Prosecutor's Office requested a two-month period to present the final conclusive requests and sought alternative measures to pretrial detention, such as a ban on leaving the country, monthly appearances, and high-value real sureties.