Paraguay
Former accountant of the Municipality of Jesús detained after 4-year sentence became final
Senón Cáceres Duarte was taken into custody to begin serving a sentence for breach of trust. The Supreme Court of Justice rejected the appeal he had filed in an effort to overturn the ruling, according to ABC Color.
Senón Cáceres Duarte, former accountant of the Municipality of Jesús, was detained on Tuesday after his four-year prison sentence for breach of trust became final, according to ABC Color.
According to that outlet, the ruling rejecting the cassation appeal was signed by Supreme Court of Justice justices Gustavo Santander, Carolina Llanes and Luis María Benítez Riera. The arrest and transfer order to the General Directorate of Penitentiary Establishments had been issued on September 11 by Judge Verónica Cabral Ramírez.
ABC Color reported that Cáceres Duarte, 51, was apprehended on a public road in Obligado after surveillance carried out by agents from the National Police’s Department for Economic and Financial Crimes. He will remain at the Second Police Station in Encarnación until it is decided to which prison he will be transferred, with the possibility that he will be sent to the Social Rehabilitation Center of Cambyretá.
According to the court ruling cited by ABC Color, between 2015 and 2019 the now-convicted man served as accountant for the administration of Hernán Adolar Schlender in Jesús de Tavarangué. At trial it was proven, again according to that outlet, that he falsified documents to justify irregularities in the municipal administration and that invoices from companies that did not provide services were used in the accounting of Fonacide funds.
ABC Color added that Schlender remains in pretrial detention at Cereso while he awaits trial for alleged money laundering of proceeds from drug trafficking and breach of trust. According to the prosecutor’s indictment cited by the newspaper, the alleged patrimonial damage to the Municipality of Jesús amounts to G. 7,418 million between 2015 and 2019.
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