René Fernández, minister of the National Anticorruption Secretariat (Senac), Joshua Abreu, president of the National Securities Commission, Crismilda Espinoza and Francisco Pereira, office manager and financial director, both from Seprelad, participated. Carlos Arregui, head of Seprelad, could not attend, because he is in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a Gafilat plenary session on the fight against money laundering.
The meeting took place due to the statements of Arnaldo Giuzzio, Minister of the Interior, who denounced Horacio Cartes, former President of the Republic, last Thursday for trafficking cigarettes.
PRESS CONFERENCE
During the press conference, the vice president announced that they did not raise specific issues during the meeting, but rather discussed the strengths and weaknesses of these institutions for the control of money laundering.
“I asked them to present a bill in order to improve the control policy in relation to money laundering. Above all, establish a software, where the entire financial system can enter and join without depending on other institutions to provide them with documents, ”he commented.
QUESTIONS
The second of the Executive repeatedly insisted on the questionable work of the Public Ministry. This, in coincidence with the rumors of a political trial against Sandra Quiñonez, state attorney general, which gained strength in recent hours.
“What we find here is the null action of the justice and the Public Ministry to promote control of money laundering from contraband. We have been convicted of acts of corruption, but not of acts preceding money laundering”, he criticized.
When asked about the rumors of a political trial against Sandra Quiñónez, he stated that they have not yet analyzed it carefully. He announced that he will first meet with Abdo Benítez, President of the Republic, to discuss this issue, before meeting with the deputies of the ruling party.
CONTEXT
Last Thursday, February 3, Arnaldo Giuzzio, Minister of the Interior, appeared before the Permanent Commission of the National Congress. On the occasion, he exposed the achievements of the Ministry of the Interior and again accused Horacio Cartes, former president of the Republic, of trafficking cigarettes. He was summoned after the intention of Chartist deputies to remove him via impeachment for criticism of his management. During his defense, he denounced that Tabesa, a Cartes company, declared that between 2013 and 2018, it made sales of US $ 1.1 billion, only locally. While exports were for US$ 43 million. In other words, he doubted that all these revenues were the product of the legal sale of tobacco, considering the multimillion-dollar sums not appropriate for a market of only 7 million people like our country.
