How is the luxurious complex where former senator Edgardo Kueider spent the holidays in Paraguay?

While waiting for progress in his cause, the former Argentine senator Edgardo Kueider and his secretary, Iara Guinsel Costa, They celebrated the end of the year in a luxurious apartment in Asunciónwhere they are under house arrest. It is located in the exclusive residential complex “Tierra Alta del Maestro”.

The luxurious apartment where Edgardo Kueider and his secretary spent the holidays

From the December 6, the former national senator and his secretary are under house arrest in the Paraguayan capitalAsunción, waiting for the investigation to progress for alleged smuggling and money laundering. There, both accused spent both Christmas and New Year’s Day and will continue to be detained until the Paraguayan Justice determines it or agrees to the extradition requested by the Argentine judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado.

In detail, the property where the detainees spent the holidays is apartment number 103 of a luxurious housing complex called “Tierra Alta del Maestro.” He himself has swimming pool, gym, barbecue area and an air-conditioned room for its inhabitants.

The complex is located at the intersection of Del Maestro and Gonzalo Bulnes streets, 20 minutes from the López Palace, in Asunción. This is one of the six luxury developments that Tierra Alta has in the Paraguayan capital.

To access the benefit of house arrest, Kueider and his companion they had to pay a deposit of US$150 thousand for each one.

In parallel with the celebration of the end of the year holidays, the Justice of Paraguay is advancing with the investigation of the case. From Argentina, the federal judge of San Isidro, Sandra Arroyo Salgado, hopes to advance with expertise in Paraguay, after formally request the urgent extradition of Kueider and Guinsel Costa.

A prosecutor believed that the session in which former senator Edgardo Kueider was expelled is valid

The prosecutor before the Federal Administrative Litigation Chamber Rodrigo Cuesta asked the court to reject the former senator’s appeal and to confirm the ruling that validated the session of the Senate of Congress in which he was expelled from banking. Kueider had filed an amparo action in Argentina against the Upper House to declare the unconstitutionality of the December 12 session in which his removal from the position of senator was ordered, due to alleged irregularities in the role of Vice President Victoria Villarruel as president of the Senate.

The judge of first instance of the Federal Administrative Litigation jurisdiction Enrique Lavié Pico rejected the proposal and Kueider appealed to the Chamber. Now he asked that his request be processed during the January fair.

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Kueider’s defense demanded that the session where his expulsion was defined be declared void.

In detail, the argument of Kueider’s defense is that the vice president of the Nation Victoria Villarruel could not fulfill her duties as president of the Senate in the session, given that she was in the exercise of the Executive Power, the president of the Nation is on secondment abroad. They also added that due process was not respected, as their right to defense had not been protected.

Before defining, the court asked the opinion of the prosecutor before the Chamber who He ruled to reject the appeal of the senator removed for moral inability.

Kueider case: they release the video of the moment in which the former senator was arrested

While the investigation into alleged money laundering and smuggling progresses, the National Tax Revenue Directorate (DNIT) of Paraguay released the video that shows How was the vehicle inspection of the former Entre Ríos senator? after which he was arrested. In the filming you can see the moment in which Kueider and Costa arrived at the Friendship Bridge in a van and went through the different control steps.

In the images you can see how the senator and his secretary enter the Paraguayan immigration office at 11:57 p.m. and leave at 12:20 a.m. Later, during a second check, the Paraguayan authorities checked Kueider and Costa again and, after finding the backpack with the undeclared dollars, They proceeded to arrest both. After this, you can see how one of the agents seizes the former legislator’s money.