The president’s request comes after the criminal complaint against him made by Arnaldo Giuzzio, Minister of the Interior, a day earlier, on January 27. The Secretary of State accuses him of inconsistencies in his affidavits. The complaint was filed with the Secretariat for the Prevention of Money or Property Laundering (Seprelad).
Despite Cartes’ request, the Comptroller’s Office already began the study of its DDJJ in October of last year. This after an international journalistic investigation revealed that the former president owned “briefcase companies” in Panama, without him having announced it to the control agencies.
BENITEZ
Camilo Benítez, Comptroller General of the Republic, reported that the financial entities are delivering all the documents they have requested.
“We have been collecting the information for a year. We have no problem with this case,” he stated.
Benítez regrets that the bill he proposed to speed up the delivery of documents does not prosper in Congress, since they have the problem that the entities deliver data within a period of six months. The high public official referred to Public Records, Seprelad, the SET and others.
“In all cases, the delivery of information usually takes time. The bill that I presented consists of Comptroller officials having a code for direct access to documents and thus we can carry out the examination in weeks and not in months as they last today”, he said.
The comptroller reported that they made a total of 28 requests to public and private institutions that can serve as inputs to do this work.
“We can finish the job in two weeks after having all the information we need, but they take months to deliver. Sometimes even a year. That is why we do not want to venture to give delivery deadlines for the report”, she clarified.
DETAILS
In the criminal complaint, Giuzzio highlights that Cartes in 2013 had the sum of G. 88 billion in cash. While a year later, in 2014, he had G. 90 billion. He questioned that the former president must have reasons so that these sums do not enter the financial system.
He also denounced the millionaire loans that he makes to various people and entities with promissory notes that do not record repayment dates. With this, Giuzzio affirms that it can lend itself to an extortion mechanism.
Among the people and entities cited by Giuzzio appears the Libertad club, which until 2018, had a debt of US $ 6 million with the former president. Also the sister of the former president, Sarah Cartes Jara, who received US $ 50 million. The latter occurred at the same time that the businesswoman acquired 90% of the shares of the Basa bank.
