The huge scandals are others. They are authentic crimes typified by our law: In a nation with attachment to justice, in this case several leading men and women in our country would be in jail.
Like cadaverous bones, and with the same putrid fragrance, The institutions shine through that, through some of their representatives, were the hinges that allowed the functioning of these well-organized crimes. Without prejudice to other accomplices and accessories, those responsible who were in:
1) The SET, who never collected the taxes that each and every member of the clan should have paid. Several former vice ministers, consummate persecutors of the chiquitaje, remained undaunted and unmoved by the tax evasion.
2) The Secretariat for the Prevention of Money Laundering (Seprelad), which through its financial intelligence never detected the huge moves, the flow of fortune, the truckloads of bills that were moved to foreign banks, money laundering. Expert in putting the magnifying glass on modest citizen movements, the institution did not see the crimes committed by the sheaf. And if he saw them, he covered them with a sordid silence.
3) The prosecution, which denounced more than half a thousand people on behalf of the González Daher clan; shameless prosecutors and prosecutors who functioned as “collectors” and thugs on duty chasing people so that the clan would thicken their pockets with other people’s money. They are no longer simply suspicions: the Public Ministry itself has confirmed that they even used criminal complaints to crush those who owed money with fear. Almost two hundred compatriots were apprehended by male and female prosecutors who, to this day, have been exercising their positions with impunity.
4) The Jury for the Prosecution of Magistrates (JEM), which seemed to have, more than a head of an organism, someone who acted as the leader of a gang that brought down judges and prosecutors who refused to be functional to the clan’s grip. The audios of the deceased Oscar Gonzalez Daher They not only reflected a devastating traffic of influence, submission and interference; the audios confirmed, above all else, that there was possibly a criminal organization, a punishable act that has not yet been brought to justice. And finally, in the rosary of institutions that did nothing, was the ineffable:
5) Power of attorney. His Majesty “Justice” was the spring that allowed, tolerated, concealed and encouraged the tightening of this mafia thread towards citizens who lost their homes, their companies and factories; people who were stripped and outraged by slapping their lives and finances, Paraguayans who endured the humiliation of violent telephone messages, according to abundant pages of the almost 20,000 presented by prosecutors.
The process carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office and led by the prosecutor Osmar Legal is the confirmation of all the worst suspicions about a large part of the financial, judicial, fiscal, tax and money laundering prevention system that does NOT work in the Republic of Paraguay. We are in the presence of a failed State that tolerates crimes of Power and crucifies the common: a powerful justice with the weak and weak with the almighty. We are in a liberated territory where, with the passes granted by Power, any citizen can be squeezed, tortured and crucified, and on top of that, label it as supposed “justice.”
As in few previous cases, the Public Ministry has managed to seat – among the witnesses – unthinkable victims of the system: businessmen, investors, entrepreneurs, micro-entrepreneurs, consortium leaders and even journalists, all crushed and squeezed by the same mechanism. The fiscal strategy has exhibited irrefutable technical evidence, cell phone crossovers, copies of telephone messages and testimonies; They have used as evidence the very processes that were carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office and several that were aired in the courts. Although the mafia managed to steal almost 400 checks, it is also true that thousands more remained, enough to paper the Palace of Justice.
Next week could reach the final stage of the trial. A just conviction and sentence may bring some peace but will never return stolen bread to many surviving families. Most important of all: this is just the first chapter, the first round of this fight that is far from over.
It is still necessary to prosecute and punish the greatest culprits, accomplices and accessories that facilitated this territory liberated for the crime; the culprits who remained blind, deaf and mute before the plundering of the González Daher clan. It is missing that various former vice ministers of Taxation, former Seprelad heads, prosecutors of the Public Ministry, various judges of the Judicial Power, former and current members of the JEM, in addition to former and current ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice, give their explanations before the courts. The González Daher clan organization was not only an illicit association for the tightening and collection of loans with gigantic and illicit usurious rates. All the evidence indicates that it was an authentic sheaf with members of the very powers of the State.
