The confiscation of assets is requested. Photo: MP.
The Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against four people and asked to bring them to trial for money laundering from international drug trafficking. The confiscation of assets is also requested.
Within the framework of the Status operation, an accusation was filed against Víctor Javier Paredes Valenzuela, Luis Alberto Benítez Escobar, Juan Darío Echague González and Noelia Giménez, for money laundering from international drug trafficking.
The investigation is in charge of the prosecutors of the Specialized Unit in the Fight against Drug Trafficking Fabiola Molas, Ysaac Ferreira and Osmar Segovia, who requested to raise the case to oral and public trial, in addition to the confiscation of real estate and high-end vehicles. The request is addressed to the judge specialized in Organized Crime, Gustavo Amarilla
Properties allegedly from money laundering.
According to research, in Brazil fthat a criminal organization dedicated to the international trafficking of illicit substances was created, which from 2015 to 2020 trafficked some 19 shipments of cocaine, attributed by Brazilian authorities to the García Morínigo Clan, with a total of three tons.
Members of said group They arrived in Pedro Juan Caballero in 2013, to settle permanently, in order to open companies with legal facades, financed with resources from illegal activities, through front men close to the organization.
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With the wealth of money they accumulated, they led a life of luxury for themselves, their relatives and to finance the salaries of those who worked for them.
From In 2016, the branch of the exchange house Zafra Cambios SA of Pedro Juan Caballero, operated in favor of the organization, exchange of dollars for real or real for dollars, withdrawal and delivery of cash and request for deposits to third parties in bank agencies in Brazil, without leaving a record of these operations. All this, at the request of Robson Lourival Alcaraz Ajala (with an international arrest warrant) through Julio César Duarte Servián, who made the negotiations.
The Prosecutor’s Office asked the Court for the confiscation of assets.
The people accused today, members of the García Morínigo clan, were arrested on September 11, 2020, during different raids carried out in Pedro Juan Caballero. He The main logistics operator of the money laundering scheme is allegedly Julio Duarte Servián, processed and awaiting trial.
Víctor Javier Paredes Valenzuela formed the firm Grupo Factor SA together with Luana García Morinigo (with international arrest warrant), with which the capital from the illicit activities of international drug trafficking was injected
In relation to the other defendants, there is the accountant of the same firm, Luis Benítez, who in turn exercised the role of trustee of the firm, granting with his function the legal aspect, in order to disguise the origin of the money with which It was established.
For his part, the shareholder of the aforementioned exchange house and president of the Pedro Juan Caballero branch during 2018, Juan Darío Echague, is noted for its close relationship with the main operator Julio Duarte Servián, as the person who should know the handling of it. since with this company they carried out exchanges of dollars for real or real for dollars, withdrawal and delivery of cash and request for deposits to third parties in bank agencies in Brazil, without leaving a record of the operations.
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Echague and Servián acquired several high-value properties in strategic areas of Asunción and surroundings as a condominium.
Besides, Noelia Giménez, wife of Julio César Duarte Servián, carried out a variety of financial operations to assist the criminal organization, both through Zafra Cambios SA Pedro Juan Caballero branch, and Uniexpress SA, in order to legitimize the assets that come from criminal activities related to money laundering from the international trafficking of dangerous drugs. Thus, it facilitated the movement of funds to hide and disguise the illegal origin.
The woman has several personal and real estate assets registered in her name, acquired during the period in which the events occurred, in order to hide the illegal origin of the assets received through Servián and insert them into the legal financial system.
