A new scandal has rocked the National Police of Paraguay following the discovery of a vehicle stolen from Brazil inside the courtyard of the 8th Police Precinct in San Estanislao, San Pedro department.
Paraguayan lawyer Jonathan Gómez Nicolino, representing the Brazilian rental company Movida Participações SA, located a red 2025 Volkswagen Tera on Tuesday. The vehicle had been stolen in March from the city of Guaíra in the state of Paraná, Brazil.
The car was identified through an alternate GPS tracker that activated intermittently, indicating its precise location inside the police unit. Images recorded by the lawyer's vehicle camera confirmed the car's presence at the site.
As the lawyer attempted to recover the vehicle, two plainclothes police officers—an unidentified man and woman—got into the Volkswagen and fled the scene. The 24-year-old officer on duty, Sub-Officer Denis René Olmedo Cubilla, who had been speaking with the lawyer, later told his superiors that the vehicle was no longer under his responsibility.
The case was referred to the police's General Directorate of Internal Affairs, which has opened a summary proceeding to investigate the conduct of the agents from the San Pedro Investigations Department. The National Police has an internal resolution that prohibits its agents from using vehicles of dubious origin.
A similar incident occurred last year in Ciudad del Este, when a Jeep pickup truck stolen in Brazil was located with police officers, who also fled with the vehicle moments before its recovery.