Statements linking former Paraguayan President Cartes to Pecci's murder to be investigated
Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 10:11 UTC
“We are gathering the information that will support the new team and once we have it we will make it known,” said Rolón in a radio interview
Paraguay's Attorney General Emiliano Rolón announced Monday that statements linking former President Horacio Cartes (2013-2018) to the murder of anti-maffia Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci last year while honeymooning in Colombia were to be investigated.
The phrases allegedly connecting Cartes with the crime were uttered by Francisco Correa Galeano, who is believed to have been behind the assembling of the team of hitmen that killed Pecci.
Correa Galeano accused Cartes and drug lord Miguel Insfrán, alias “Tío Rico” as the instigators of the crime. Cartes, who is also known to be the political mentor of current President Santiago Peña, has denied the accusations but might be summoned to testify, it was reported in Asunción.
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu next to Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes
following the opening ceremony of the embassy of Paraguay in Jerusalem,
May 21, 2018. | Photo: Reuters