José Peirano, with a Chicana, avoided being extradited to Paraguay.
On October 30, 2021, the Uruguayan justice decided the extradition of José Peirano Basso to Paraguay, where he must answer for the emptying of Banco Alemán that occurred at the beginning of 2002, but a similar request from the Argentine justice prevented his coming, however now An Appeal Court confirmed that the banker should be brought to our country, but the defendant has now resorted to the Court to stop his trip.
With a Chicana, José Peirano Basso, he delayed his trip to Paraguay, where justice is waiting for him to answer for the emptying of Banco Alemán. The defendant also has an open case in Argentina for the bankruptcy of a bank and is required by that country.
The Peirano family ran banks in Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil and Argentina. In Uruguay, Banco Montevideo and Caja Obrera were under the administration of this family, but in 2002 they went bankrupt, causing savers losses of more than US$800 million.
In Uruguay, proceedings were opened against Juan Peirano, and his sons José Dante and Jorge, for the millionaire embezzlement and they were arrested in 2002. Moreover, the patriarch Juan Peirano, a year after his arrest, died in jail at the waiting for a trial. Juan Periamo Basso fled to the United States, but was still extradited in 2008 and subjected to another process.
In 2013 the Uruguayan justice sentenced José, Dante and Jorge Peirano to 6 and 9 years in prison for the bankruptcy of Banco Montevideo in 2002, that same year the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) intervened the German Bank and confirmed an embezzlement that exceeded US$19 million.
What happened on that occasion was that the Peiranos placed the money from the German Bank in three accounts abroad and they were used as collateral to obtain credits for the payment of adornists of an Argentine bank. In a few words, loans were being made with money from Paraguayan savers to pay debts of other savers, but Argentines.
That calesiteada of money is what later caused the bankruptcy of the German Bank. Juan Peirano and José Peirano were prosecuted by Paraguayan justice in 2002 for the crimes of breach of trust and misconduct in a crisis situation.
However, Juan Peirano has already died, so all the cases against him no longer run, but against his son, who must be sent to Paraguay.
When José Peirano served his sentence in Uruguay, the extradition process requested by the Paraguayan justice began, but last year when he was about to be brought to our country, Argentina appeared, also requesting the banker, now the Uruguayan justice decided that Let Paraguay be the destination of the defendant, but a Chicana once again truncates that extradition.
