The Senate approved the formation of a Bicameral Investigation Commission (CBI) to investigate public and private institutions, judges, prosecutors and financial entities that collaborated with a usury network led by Ramón González Daher.
The promoter of the initiative, Jorge Querey, national senator for the Guasu Front, said that although the formation of a Bicameral Commission is very difficult. However, it is the only way to do good research.
“You have to summon public sectors. Besides that, bank secrecy can be saved with a Bicameral Investigation Commission. In this way, we will also be able to summon individuals to attest to these facts, ”he said.
He commented that the financial sector’s control system has failed. For example, he cited the Central Bank and the Superintendency of Banks. He regretted that there is no capacity to control and punish for the complicity that exists.
“Those compliance offices have not made the suspicious transaction reports (ROS) in the González Daher case. There are enough elements for this chamber to look for the proofs and evidences to be clear and to be able to prosecute from the Legislative ”, he said.
After becoming a commission, the Senate ended up supporting the initiative. Now it goes to the Chamber of Deputies for approval or rejection.
DESIRÉE MASI
Subsequently, Senator Desirée Masi, presented a similar draft declaration that “Urges the representatives of the Chamber of Senators before the Jury for the Prosecution of Magistrates (JEM) to initiate ex officio the investigation or prosecution of the magistrates of the magistrates and agents prosecutors identified in the sentence relapsed in file number 122/2019, entitled; Ramón González Daher and others on money laundering ”.
The project was presented with the support of his fellow bench, Pedro Santa Cruz.
The legislator stressed that the Senate was the one that initiated the process by which Óscar González Daher suffered a political setback. He made reference to the expulsion of the legislator at the end of December 2017 through the loss of investiture.
“We are only above Burundi and Venezuela in terms of injustice according to the World Economic Forum. Citizens are at the mercy of prosecutors and judges traitors to the homeland ”, he pointed out.
Masi regretted that the prosecutors allege that the indictment does not cause injury. He said that there are many Paraguayans who suffered injustices, there are mothers, fathers and people who have had their property stripped.
“We are on our way to being a failed state. Democracy is at stake. The rule of law is not there to defend citizens but to persecute them ”, he lamented.
Most of the senators ended up passing the bill as well as Querey’s proposal.
