Ninfa Graciela González paid G. 73 million to win back the lot she had bought in 2015 and paid off after 11 years of installments. The auction took place the Thursday before September 28, when she joined the bidding to prevent someone else from getting the property, which is linked to Ramón González Daher’s assets.
González said she made her final payment in August 2026, then contacted Inmobiliaria Confort to obtain the deed and was told that the transfer depended on a court order. She submitted documents showing the purchase and payment in full to the National Secretariat for the Administration of Seized and Forfeited Assets (Senabico), Paraguay’s state agency responsible for managing seized and confiscated property. Even so, the auction went ahead. The lot’s opening bid was G. 73 million; she said she turned to relatives to raise the money.
The case prompted buyers of properties connected to the proceedings against González Daher and his son, Fernando González Karjallo, to protest on September 28 and call for further auctions to be suspended. In 2021, Ramón González Daher was sentenced to 15 years in prison and Fernando González Karjallo to five years. The convictions involved aggravated usury, money laundering and false accusation; the son was also convicted of laundering assets derived from usury. The court ordered the special forfeiture of assets worth G. 240,554,525,035 and US$11,711,977.
The protesters gave different estimates of how many families could be affected. Higinio Torales said 260 families were worried about the auctions; Nilda Benítez, a resident of Cañada Garay in Luque, estimated more than 100. Laura López said there were 300 families. These are figures cited by the buyers, and the reports presented no independent count.
The accounts describe different situations: some people say they paid off their lots but never received title, while others are still making payments. López said she bought in 2020 without knowing the property had problems. Carolina Candia said she bought a lot in 2002, finished paying for it in 2013 and still has not been able to obtain title. The buyers are also demanding that real estate agencies be held responsible and say they fear losing homes where they have lived for years.
Torales said the court account receiving auction proceeds already held more than G. 3 billion, and another round is scheduled for December. The protesters also said about 50 families had allegedly been misled by lawyers who did not warn them about the case, even though roughly 90 properties were slated for auction. Candia said the buyers submitted documents to Judge Sandra Kirchhofer and that she promised them the lots would not be affected; auctions have nevertheless already taken place.