González Macchi’s Illegal Enrichment.

Asunción (CIN-Paraguay) Four prosecutors are conducting an investigation of Paraguay’s former President Luis González Macchi based on a report issued by Interpol at the end of last October for alleged money laundering made through secret bank accounts opened in Switzerland.
The prosecutor general Oscar Latorre decided to open an investigation around the former president after learning about a request of reports sent by the Swiss Justice in relation to an account opened by Macchi in the Spanish Bank BBVA of Geneva.
The prosecutors suspect that Macchi could have covered the diversion of public funds to personal offshore accounts.
The former President governed Paraguay, as a result of a political trick, since 1999, for a term of four years and five months. Without being elected, and in what has been proved internationally to be a coup covered up by the events of the “Marzo paraguayo” (Paraguayan March), he was appointed through a decision – deemed of confusing constitutional legitimacy – issued by the nine-member Supreme Court of Justice,.
Two injunctions have been issued that bar Macchi from leaving the country due to illegal enrichment.
The investigation on the secret bank accounts in Switzerland corners the former head of state who experienced a suspicious prosperity since illegitimately taking office as President in March 1999 after being appointed provisional president of the Congress, a situation that obliged Raúl Cubas Grau, then constitutional Head of State, to resign.
The latter was accused by Macchi’s supporters of complicity in the attack that resulted in the death of his Vice-President and political enemy, Luis María Argaña.
Another one of the accused individuals, Lino Oviedo, leader of the Partido Unión Nacional de Ciudadanos Eticos party (Unace) is in Brazil and he is awaiting a purge of the Judicial Power, initiated by current president Duarte, in order to return to the country under conditions that will ensure him justice, fairness and the end of a long political persecution started by those whose criminally governed the destiny of Paraguay during the last years.
Both Cubas and Oviedo reported and proved before international courts of justice that they were victims of a conspiracy aimed at overthrowing the Government of the former, and they claimed an impartial investigation of the attack against Argaña.