The paraguayan justice issued this Thursday house arrest in the country for the national senator Edgardo Kueider and for his secretary Iara Magdalena Guinsel Costa. Both will remain in an apartment in the city of Asunción with permanent control of the local national police. Besides, A personal bond of US$150 thousand was set for each one, who also were charged with attempted smuggling.
One of the prosecutors in the case, Alcides Giménez Zorrillaconfirmed that the Paraguayan justice system issued the house arrest because it believes that It would be a risk for the process to let Senator Kueider return to Argentina. This measure had been requested by the Public Prosecutor’s Office. They had also requested a ban on leaving Paraguay.
The request for house arrest was made by the Public Prosecutor’s Office “for the purposes of submitting to the procedure in such a way that we can ensure your appearance and prosecution in this case“, reported Giménez Zorrilla in an interview on C5N.
The prosecutor explained that from now on another stage of the investigation opens. This will allow “follow the course of the threads which will lead us, for example, to determine the smuggling of money that has not been declared or, where appropriate, the origin of the same or if it is going to prosecute for money laundering“, he listed.
The investigation is just beginning and Paraguayan justice has six months to carry it outas established in its Procedural Code. Therefore, the prosecutor did not want to anticipate how the case will continue or the penalties that could be imposed on Senator Kueider.
The Paraguayan justice system rejected the senator’s version of the destination of the money. As they stated, it was to buy household appliances and invest in cryptocurrencies. Since they did not have any documentation that would prove the origin of the money and, above all, since they had not declared it, both the court and the prosecutor’s office ruled it out as possible.
Edgardo Kueider’s version
Senator Edgardo Kueider denied before the Paraguayan justice system that the money he was transporting was his. According to prosecutor Giménez Zorrilla, the senator stated that it belonged to his secretary, Iara Magdalena Guinsel Costa.
For his part, Guinsel Costa maintained that he was traveling to Paraguay on behalf of a company based in the Guaraní country that was going to make purchases and investments.
What would the process of an eventual dismissal of Kueider in the Senate be like?
Senators and representatives are exempt from impeachment proceedingsreserved for members of the Executive and Judicial Branch and whose positions depend on the vote of the members of Congress. However, another internal mechanism was established for them: treatment in the Constitutional Affairs Commissionpermanent space in both chambers that determines – among other responsibilities – the sanctions against parliamentarians.
Here there is a specific situation: Kueider himself is the one who chairs the Constitutional Affairs Commission in the Senate. However, as he anticipated that he will ask for leave until his judicial situation in Paraguay is clarified, where he remains at the disposal of local justice, his place could be occupied by the vice president of the space, the senator from Tucumán. Sandra Mendoza (Union for the Homeland).
She is the one who can call a meeting to address a sanction procedure and even impeachment of the Entre Ríos senatorin the terms established by the Law 25,320: There are 60 days to issue a ruling and 180 to deal with the case in court, with or without a ruling. The Neuquina Lucila Crexell is the only companion of the Kueider block, called The United Provinceswhich integrates the Constitutional Affairs Commission. In that sense, there would be a large majority to determine the sanctions that are considered pertinent.
Source: Ambito
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