Justice suspended extradition to Paraguay of the Uruguayan banker Jose Peirano Basso, which was scheduled for this Saturday, after Argentina made it known that it also requires it to judge him in causes of that country.
Pablo Donnángelo, Peirano Basso’s lawyer, told Television that his client will carry out house arrest while the Justice defines which country the extradition corresponds to. Until now, he has been in preventive detention.
According to the trade that spread on Twitter Paraguayan lawyer Guillermo Duarte Cacavelo, Peirano Basso’s legal advisor in that country, “is in accordance with the law that the requested state, prior to making the delivery of the requested one to the Republic of Paraguay, must be issued in accordance with the provisions of Article 20 of the extradition treaty concluded between the Argentine Republic and our country “.
“In attention to said rule previously It must be resolved –through the study of both cases– which of the crimes included in the requisitions is more serious or, if applicable, whether the state that requested the extradition in the first place should be preferred.“, says the document.
Donnángelo said that his client was “unduly deprived of liberty, contrary to what the Court of Criminal Appeals of the 3rd Shift and also the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights had opportunely ordered. “” He suffered 12 days of deprivation of liberty in contradiction to what is established by this international body and the Court of appeals, “he claimed. The defender estimates that in a week the Justice will make a decision.
Peirano Basso had been arrested for Interpol last October 18 by order of Judge Ana de Salterain -who ordered that caution before a possible risk of flight – and had to be extradited to Paraguay by order of the Justice of that country.
The cause why he is being investigated in Paraguay responds to the disappearance of customer deposits of Banco Alemán, after the Uruguayan Justice approved his extradition in 2010. The investigation is similar to the antecedent of the Bank of Montevideo, where Judge Beatriz Larrieu decided to convict him of a crime of fraudulent corporate insolvency.
The request for extradition by the Paraguayan Justice entered the country in 2003. However, it could not be carried out before because the suspect was still serving his sentence in Uruguay for the fall of the Banco de Montevideo and could not be detained.
