Asunción: In a historic verdict, Ramón González was therefore sentenced to 15 years in prison for usury, money laundering and misrepresentation, while his son Fernando González Karjallo was sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering.
In addition, the seizure of more than 240 billion guaranies and $ 11.7 million was ordered. The verdict was pronounced by the criminal court chaired by Claudia Criscioni, including Yolanda Morel and Yolanda Portillo.
After reading the verdict for almost two hours, the court ruled that Ramón González’s actions were grave and sentenced him to 15 years’ imprisonment. Meanwhile, his son Fernando González Karjallo received five years in prison.
Judge Claudia Criscioni apologized to the 156 victims of Ramón González Hence and his son, because the judiciary also participated in the usury system of those now convicted, and asked the public prosecutor to investigate all officials of the public prosecutor’s office and the judiciary who were in the Case were involved.
Because the collective prosecutor Osmar Legal from the special unit for economic crimes and the fight against corruption (UDEA) has proven at the hearing that Ramón González therefore granted several people loans with excessive interest who, when the loan was withdrawn, gave the convicted person a check with the amount of the had to hand over the first installment.
Prosecutors also demonstrated that usury was the only source of income for the former chairman of the Paraguayan Football Association, who, together with his son Fernando González Karjallo, drove 6,539,895,697,879 guaranies through usury between 2013 and 2018.
When the victims could not pay their debts, Ramón González harassed them until he succeeded in charging further interest on the interest that had already been set. In this way, not only did he stifle any possibility of payment by turning the loan into a “snowball”, but he also used the checks to file around 500 reports with the prosecutor, portraying himself as an alleged victim of fraud.
In view of this situation, the court convicted Ramón González of false reports, as both prosecutor Osmar Legal and the group report showed that he had filed several charges of alleged fraud against the usury victims with the same tenor and thus succeeded in depriving them of their property bring to.
The statements of the joint plaintiff Julio Adolfo Mendoza Yampey and other witnesses such as the notary Ramón Zubizarreta Zaputovich, the lawyer Federico Campos López Moreira, the judge Luis Benítez, the businessmen Armindo Vera Ferrer and Edemilson Antonio de Lima and Tania Villalba Dickel proved that several companies went bankrupt or were on the verge of bankruptcy because they were no longer able to pay the interest imposed by the loan shark.
From the messages and records issued during the taking of evidence, it was established that Ramón González Hence used prosecutors and judges, most of them from Luque City, to blackmail victims of money-lending. In this context, the notary Ramón Zubizarreta confirmed in his testimony at the trial that “the judiciary and the prosecutor’s office began to work as debt collection agencies for Ramón González Hence without any composure”.
Regarding the money laundering offense, the court concluded that the defendants had lied to the financial system by disguising the origin of the large sums of money in their bank accounts in both guaraníes and dollars by calling them Spending profits from renting and selling real estate when in reality it was usury.
In this sense, the prosecution was able to demonstrate that none of the defendants intended to control, let alone formalize, the lending, considering that the accounting report carried out by the prosecutor’s expert, Javier González, did not find any other documents that prove that they at least tried to formalize the lending business and were registered with the Secretariat for the Prevention of Money Laundering (Seprelad) as obligated subjects for the real estate business.
That trial began on October 11th and both the prosecutor and the plaintiff requested sentences of 15 years for González Hence and 7 years and 5 months for González Karjallo. Neither the former president of the Paraguayan Football Association nor his son asked for forgiveness in the court of justice yesterday morning, but “praised themselves” in a speech that portrayed a reality very different from that told by their victims conclude their statements with a plea for “justice” and “grace”.
Weekly sheet / Abc Color
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