The resources recovered and transferred to the state by the operation, under the name of Pavo Real, estimated at $650 million, were located in northern departments such as Amambay, Concepción, Alto Paraná, as well as Central and San Pedro, the newspaper added.
The properties seized include properties in regions such as Pedro Juan Caballero, Chimenes’ headquarters, and firms such as Agroganadera Coelho SA, Caucaso SA, Exel Trading SA and Chimenes partner Jorge Fernando Mora Galeano in the northern regions of Concepción and Amambay.
The seizure of the property involved in the drug dealer’s money laundering scheme was directed through the above operation by Judge Gustavo Amarilla and his components, identified by drug trafficking prosecutors Osmar Segovia, Fabiola Molas and Isaac Ferreira.
Authorities say many of these assets are in the names of friends and relatives of the criminal, such as his wife Talessa Ariany Santos Da Silva, his mother Nahir Chimenes or his stepbrother Alexandre Rodrigo Chimenes Larson.
Assets confiscated in this region include the 1,201 hectares “María Cristina” and 288 hectares of Karla Sophya farms, the latter of which the drug trafficker gave to his partner, criminal Carlos Oleñik, for legal protection.
The confiscations of just one residence of this last Chimenes accomplice surprised with a collection of paintings estimated by local appraisers to be worth $1.5 million, while in a second residence he had another 300 high-quality paintings as part of his money-laundering scheme.
Among the authors of these works are internationally known artists such as Ignacio Núñez Soler (1891-1983) and his painting “Juegos universidad” worth one hundred thousand dollars, as well as Pablo Alborno, Juan Anselmo Samudio, Ignacio Núñez Soler or Herminia Soler with paintings worth several ten thousand.
The operation also found extreme allegations of corruption from judicial officials involved in drug trafficking, such as the couple of prosecutor Katia Uemura and her husband Daniel Montenegro.
The latter was arrested and charged with his connections to the Chimenes money laundering scheme and emerged as one of the key administrative players in the criminal organization.
Montenegro, which was at the second level of the investigation hierarchy, acted as administrator, figurehead, “Prestaname” and in charge of some Brazilian properties.
Lawyer and prosecutor Uemura’s wife was known as “Doctor Montenegro” and had direct ties to Oleñik, who was also related to usurer Ramón González Darum, already accused and convicted, and former President Horacio Cartes, who has recently been repeatedly denounced for these crimes.
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