The extradition request of the former banker Juan Peirano Basso Realized by Paraguaywhere it is required by the bankruptcy of the Banaleman Mutual Fundwas rejected by the Prosecutor’s Office, which opposed that procedure.
Gilberto Rodriguezprosecutor for Economic Crimes, considered that the crimes for which the justice of Paraguay It requires the former banker to have already expired because they date back 22 years. Likewise, he recalled that he is still subject to trial in the country, since he faces the accusation for fraudulent corporate insolvencyreported El Observador and El País.
The hearing where the criminal judge Eduardo Pereyra will decide whether or not to authorize the extradition of Peirano Basso to Paraguay was set for May 14. His brother, José Peirano Bassowas extradited last May for that same reason.
The bankruptcy of German Bank in Paraguay in 2002 it left well-known politicians, officials and businessmen linked to the then Paraguayan government without funds.
The economic collapse of the Peiranos
Peirano Basso’s history with Justice is long-standing, and also involves his immediate family: he was a member, along with his father, Jorge Peirano Facioand his brothers Jorge, Dante and José, the so-called Velox Group, also known as Peirano Group, who owned the Bank of Montevideo, Velox Bank (Argentina), Banco Alemán (Paraguay) and Trade&Commerce Bank (TCB, Cayman Islands).
The group collapsed with the Argentine financial crisis of 2001from a liquidity problem that led to the intervention and liquidation of the different banks by the authorities of each country.
In fact, the Banco de Montevideo was suspended by the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) in July 2002, which precipitated the crisis which generated the loss of 45% of the deposits and 80% of the country’s reserves in that year.
Jorge Peirano Facio, as well as his sons Dante, Jorge and José, were prosecuted with prison in Uruguay in 2002. The father died in prison the following year awaiting trial, while his sons remained imprisoned until 2007, when they were released on parole after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the OAS condemn the Uruguayan State for the duration of the criminal process.
In 2013, Dante and José Peirano Basso were finally sentenced to nine years in prison for the crime of fraudulent corporate insolvency. His other brother, Jorge, received a six-year prison sentence. But they did not return to prison because they had served more than half of the sentence preventively.
Juan Peirano Basso, meanwhile, fled to USA, where he was arrested in 2006 in Miami after remaining on the run for four years. He was extradited in 2008 to Uruguay, where he was imprisoned for the crime of “fraudulent corporate insolvency” until 2011, when the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) granted him “liberty by grace.”
Source: Ambito
