Former mayor of Jesús de Tavarangüé, in the department of Itapúa, Hernán Adolar Schlender (ANR), completes seven months as a fugitive from justice. He is accused by the Public Prosecutor's Office of having facilitated, between 2014 and 2015, the entry of money from drug trafficking into the account of the National Fund for Public Investment and Development (Fonacide) of the municipality.
Schlender has been a fugitive since October 15, 2025. Former municipal accountant Zenón Cáceres Duarte was sentenced on December 31, 2025, to four years in prison, appealed the sentence, and in March the conviction was confirmed by a court.
An audit by the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) detected that, between 2014 and 2015, the municipality of Jesús made deposits of G. 3.602 billion into the BBVA account designated exclusively for Fonacide, amounts that do not correspond to transfers from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), formerly the Ministry of Finance.
The alleged patrimonial loss to the district is G. 7.418 billion, based on the use of documents attributed to companies whose legal representatives denied having performed the services or received the amounts declared to the CGR.
In the accusation, the Public Prosecutor's Office highlights that the scheme is characteristic of money laundering, “because what is sought is to introduce into the financial system sums of money whose origins cannot be justified, which for the most part come from illicit activities or outside the law.”