Judge Carlos Mendoza Peña, of the Specialized Court for the Enforcement of Sentences for Economic Crimes, Corruption, and Organized Crime No. 3, began enforcement of the confiscation of assets belonging to former president of the Rural and Land Development Institute (Indert), Justo Pastor Cárdenas Nunes, who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for illicit enrichment and money laundering.
According to the report, through interlocutory order No. 127, the judge ordered seizure measures and prohibitions on altering or contracting over a series of assets, pending their registration in the name of the National Secretariat for the Administration of Seized and Confiscated Assets (Senabico).
The report lists among the affected assets an apartment with a garage in the Balcones del Parque building in the San Roque district of Asunción; shares in companies associated with the family, described and valued separately; US$ 180,700 deposited in a probate process; and a 782 m² property in the Loma Merlo area of Luque, valued at G. 250 million.
According to the report, the definitive sentence of June 2021 found that Cárdenas could not justify expenditures amounting to G. 4,113,282,879. The initial 4-year sentence was annulled following a prosecution appeal, and a new sentence in 2023 set the term at 7 years.