The oath hearing was held this morning. Photo: CSJ.
The experts who will extract and analyze the data from 44 electronic devices appeared this morning before Judge José Delmás, as part of the diligence investigating former minister Arnaldo Giuzzio for passive bribery (bribery) and his link to one of the most important drug traffickers in the Brazil.
An oath hearing was held this Monday at the Palace of Justice, where computer experts pledged loyalty and fidelity in reading the data that they will extract from 44 electronic devices.
The list includes: a notebook, several flash drives, several microcassettes, memory cards, chips, recorders, external disks, among other items seized from Giuzzio’s home.
The extraction and analysis were requested by the prosecutor of the case, Osmar Legal, before which Judge José Delmás granted approval last week.
In February of last year, one of the men who until then was the most wanted in his country and one of the main targets of the Turf operation in Paraguay was arrested in Brazil: Marcos Vinicius Espíndola, a friend of Arnaldo Giuzzio, to whom he even lent a van for his vacation.
The Brazilian was the number one target in that suspiciously failed operation carried out at the Paraná Country Club, where Vinicius managed to “outwit” the participants, who gave up valuable time by “requesting that they please” raise the security fences to enter the property.
Fortunately, the man did not have the same luck in Brazil, where he was caught and where he is currently being prosecuted for money laundering, drug trafficking and asset trafficking.
There was always a question about what really happened at the Paraná Country Club and about if Vinicius will have received some “friendly” help to escape.
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This same man is friend of the former anti-drug minister and former head of the Ministry of the Interior, Arnaldo Giuzzio, who had such confidence in Vinicius, that when he went on vacation to Brazil and was left without a vehicle due to mechanical failures, the first thing he thought of was Vinicius, who kindly lent him one of his vans.
In this regard, after an investigation by Grupo Nación and a series of publications with documents and evidence, Giuzzio nOr he had no choice but to admit that he knows Vinicius and that he also turned to him to request an emergency vehicle.
However, he maintained that he knew the Brazilian as an automobile businessman and that he never had information about his ties to drug trafficking, despite the fact that Giuzzio was previously the head of the Senate.
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