Judge Osmar Legal, who specializes in organized crime, accepted the charges against former Justice of the Peace of La Encarnación, Carmen Analía Cibils Miñarro, and ordered alternative precautionary measures instead of pretrial detention in the case known as the "promissory note mafia." The charges were filed on May 18, 2026, by prosecutors Belinda Bobadilla, Jorge Arce, and Leonardi Guerrero for the crimes of malfeasance and use of public documents containing false content.
Legal, who is serving as interim judge for Humberto Otazú at the Specialized Criminal Guarantees Court for Economic Crimes No. 1, ordered that Cibils must not change her cell phone number, must not approach the Peace Court of La Encarnación, and must not communicate by any means with employees of that judicial office. The former judge is also required to reside at the same address declared in the case file and to appear between the 1st and 10th of each month to sign the attendance book.
The magistrate also accepted the real property bond offered through the property registered under Cadastral No. 26,043, Block 2, Lot 18, owned by Cibils, and ordered a preventive attachment up to the amount of 300 million guaraníes (G. 300,000,000).
In Case No. 135, alongside Analía Cibils, the defendants include court clerk Ricardo Ramón Cuevas (39), process server Audrey Jazmín Galeano Mora (27), and PH SA company representative Thalia Desiree Benítez Faría (32), charged with alleged malfeasance, immediate production of public documents containing false content, and use of public documents containing false content. In the case of Benítez Faría, she is charged as an alleged instigator of the crime.
According to the investigation, in one proceeding, the summons notification for signature recognition to the defendant was allegedly not carried out by process server Audrey Galeano. It is believed that Judge Cibils, at the request of attorney Thalia Benítez, processed the case by ordering ordinary notification, even though the declared address was in Tucumán, Argentina. Based on a report by court clerk Ricardo Cuevas, Cibils issued a judicial ruling recognizing as valid the signatures attributed to the debtor on the promissory notes.
These facts were reported through Official Communication No. 199, dated April 23, 2025, signed by the interim Justice of the Peace of La Encarnación, Susana Granado, who reported the detection of a notification bearing signs of falsification in the case file "PH Sociedad Anónima v. Andrea Balbuena Galeano (Case No. 6807/202)."