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🇵🇾 Paraguay /Crime & Justice

Interior Lawyers Condemn Alleged Irregularities Involving Paraguay Supreme Court Ministers

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • UNABIP, which represents 11 lawyers’ associations, expressed concern over alleged nepotism, influence peddling and favoritism involving Paraguay’s Supreme Court.
  • The group cited several recent events, including a private meeting involving court ministers, the president and the Colorado Party leader.
  • Lawyer Antero Prieto said communication between the court and interior bar associations had abruptly ended and that explanations about relatives of two ministers had deepened concerns.

Paraguay’s interior lawyers’ associations have issued a forceful condemnation of alleged nepotism and influence peddling involving members of the Supreme Court of Justice.

The Union of Interior Lawyers’ Associations, known as UNABIP, brings together 11 bar associations and legal groups from across the country. In a statement, it expressed “deep concern” and its “strongest condemnation” of alleged nepotism, influence peddling and favoritism linked to Supreme Court ministers.

There cannot be one justice system for the powerful and another for ordinary citizens.

— UNABIPThe lawyers’ association used the phrase in its statement condemning alleged favoritism in the Supreme Court.

The statement warned that “there cannot be one justice system for the powerful and another for ordinary citizens.” It said the allegations were particularly serious because they involve people at the top of Paraguay’s judicial branch.

Deep concern

— UNABIPThe association used the phrase to describe its reaction to the allegations.

Antero Prieto, a representative of the Alto Paraná Bar Association, said the group reacted to a series of events unfolding over recent months that, in his view, showed the court moving without a clear direction. He cited a “secret meeting” involving Supreme Court ministers, President Santiago Peña and the leader of the Colorado Party, as well as a recent electoral discussion at the National University of Asunción’s law faculty.

Prieto also said communication between the Supreme Court and lawyers’ associations in the interior had “been abruptly and inexplicably cut off.” The immediate trigger for the statement, he said, was the appearance of close relatives of two ministers, including one minister’s wife and another’s daughter-in-law, in matters that have not been clarified. “The explanations that have been attempted, rather than shedding light, have cast even greater shadow,” Prieto said. UNABIP cited constitutional equality and judicial independence, along with laws that prohibit nepotism in public service.

The explanations that have been attempted, rather than shedding light, have cast even greater shadow.

— Antero PrietoPrieto criticized explanations concerning relatives of Supreme Court ministers.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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