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A new scandal splashes the head of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency, Juan Ernesto Villamayor, who was accused of having interference in a judicial case that his law firm won against the National Customs Directorate (DNA) and that saved a vehicle importer to pay G. 22 billion to the Paraguayan State as a fine.

It is the company CENSU SA, an importer of vehicles in the country, which was sanctioned by the National Customs Directorate (DNA) to pay the figure of G. 22,596 million when detecting possible irregularities committed during an import process. The customs entity decided to sanction for the figure of fraud and applied said sanction in concept of taxes not entered and corresponding fines.

However, the company won the case and the DNA had to withdraw the fine applied after the intervention of lawyer Raúl Daniel Ramírez González, representing the law firm of Juan Ernesto Villamayor, chief of staff of President Mario Abdo Benítez. This situation generated a suspicion of strong interference by the senior executive officer in the ruling of the case, in addition to the evident conflict of interest that exists in the intervention of his lawyers in litigation against the State, he being a key figure in it.

In contact with 730 AM, Villamayor totally ruled out on Tuesday that there is a conflict of interest and stated that there is no legal impediment for his law firm to litigate in cases involving the Paraguayan State. It also pointed out that the affected firm won the case due to a legal issue and not due to alleged interference.

“The fine was not well applied. The DNA is the one that changed its decision after the mediation of the lawyer. Attorney Raúl Ramírez is terrific, whom I highly recommend to anyone who has a contentious problem. All clients hire lawyers to win their cases, no one hires lawyers to lose. And if a private company hires a private lawyer, who does not have any incompatibility, it seems correct to me, “he said.

Likewise, he affirmed that there are other political figures that are located in other State agencies, whose law firms continue to litigate and work with total normality in the same way. “Legal studies of the representatives of the Council of the Magistracy continue to work. So why can’t my studio work? “

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On the other hand, he also affirmed that a public institution must assume its responsibilities for a defective action that caused damage to an individual. In this particular case, he added that it began in 2018 and ended in 2019. “The lawyer Raúl does not receive anything from the public sector. He does not have a stake or receives a penny until more than a year after completing this, “he concluded.

This new fact attributed to the head of the Civil Cabinet of the Presidency arises as one more of the accumulation of suspicious activities that link him, in the midst of a failed attempt by the National Congress to apply the vote of censure after his participation in a secret negotiation in relation to the millionaire debt that the Paraguayan State maintains with the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA.

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