Judge Orders Preventive Detention of Peña for Flight Risk
The decision was made at the end of the measure imposition hearing, from which the former president went directly from the Palace of Justice in Asunción to the Presidential Escort Regiment...
TL;DR
- Ex-President Santiago Peña Palacios of Paraguay has been ordered into preventive detention.
- The detention is related to alleged breach of trust and self-enrichment in the Ueno Bank case.
- Judge Humberto Otazú cited flight risk and obstruction of investigation as reasons for the decision.
- Peña was imputed after the Ueno Bank's failure triggered a financial and political crisis leading to his impeachment.
- His defense plans to appeal, arguing that as a former president, there is no flight risk or obstruction risk.
- Vice-president Pedro Alliana has assumed the presidency to complete the term.
- The case involves high-ranking officials from the Paraguayan Central Bank.