The requested reports were related to allegations of money laundering against Horacio Cartes, former President of the Republic, Ramón González Daher, former Vice President of the Paraguayan Football Association (APF), among others. Due to this situation, the legislators, in board of directors, decided to reiterate the request to give the possibility that the BCP authorities rectify themselves and deliver the documents in conditions.
At the same time, they will call the aforementioned banking authorities to a meeting to address this issue. If the BCP authorities continue to refuse to deliver the reports without convincing arguments, the senators will present an interpellation request.
QUEREY
Jorge Querey, national senator for the Guasu Front, announced that caucus leaders decided that José Cantero, president of the BCP, and his board of directors will be summoned to a meeting to give their corresponding explanations, before the plenary session.
This meeting will be held after Easter. Óscar Salomón, president of Congress, is responsible for making the call.
ARA CASE
In 2015, journalistic reports emerged about a resolution of the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP), where the payment to the then sports leader Ramón González Daher was authorized for the savings he had in the defunct financial company ARA SA de Finanzas.
Rumors indicated that Daher collected all the savings he had in the entity. That is, around US$ 4 million (G. 27,240 million). This, despite the fact that the Deposit Guarantee Fund (Law 2,334) establishes that only the sum equivalent to 75 minimum wages can be returned (at the exchange rate at that time it was G. 136 million). This resolution was one of the requests made by the legislators.
“By law this is at least a serious irregularity. The names of those who signed that resolution are Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, Rafael Lara Valenzuela, Roland Holst Wenninger, Ernesto Velázquez Argaña and Carlos Carvallo Spalding. The same, coincidentally today are in private banking, “criticized Querey.
The legislator reiterated that it is not about sensitive data, and that what the BCP is doing is protecting the scope of an illegal resolution.
“When we have the answers from the head of the BCP and if what our lawyers suspect is confirmed, we will turn to the Prosecutor’s Office,” he commented.
It remains to be defined whether the meeting where the head of the BCP will be summoned will be in a reserved session or broadcast by the Congress media. Querey stated that they will analyze whether all the issues they will deal with can be addressed publicly before defining. Taking into account that the Ara case is a case that has expired and if it can be transmitted to the citizenry.
