Overview

• Judge Humberto Otazú sent Kueider and his secretary to an oral and public trial over allegations they tried to import more than $211,000 without declaring it.
• They remain in preventive detention in Asunción under electronic monitoring after rejecting a simplified extradition procedure to Argentina.
• Argentina’s San Isidro court, led by Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, has advanced a separate extradition request on money-laundering and illicit enrichment charges linked to the Securitas inquiry.
• Prosecutor Ysrael Villalba formalized the contraband accusation in April, citing breaches of Paraguayan customs law for failing to declare U.S. dollars, pesos and guaraníes.
• Conviction for attempted contraband carries a maximum penalty of two years and six months in prison under Paraguay’s customs code.