The owner, when asked by the press about the current existence of this cooperation, replied that this ministry does not have the opportunity to “confirm or deny” this information, but assured that “if there were any, regardless of rank, they would be imprisoned “and will be charged,” published the newspaper Última Hora.
Riera explained that his forces are currently mainly occupied with investigating the recent movements of Marset, requested by the authorities of Asunción following the Operation Ultranza Paraguay against organized crime and money laundering in 2022 and about which there is speculation on national territory give.
Local agents – he assured – are carrying out evaluation efforts, searching for information and verifying leads through intelligence work, so he will not comment on the matter “until the data is confirmed”.
The Interior Minister also confirmed his previous statements in which he refused to confirm or deny Marset’s presence in Paraguay.
The agency recalled that there was an Interpol alert against Marset’s wife in September last year, with his ministry coordinating its actions with the international organization’s office in Lyon, France, and also with its other headquarters in Singapore.
Expectations surrounding the notorious drug trafficker’s alleged incursion into the Guaraní nation skyrocketed when Marset granted Uruguayan journalist Patricia Martín an exclusive interview in Paraguayan territory.
The video of the meeting with the drug trafficker was broadcast by the program “Santo y Seña” on channel four of Montevideo television, in which the interviewee narrates
the documentation process in 2001 when he was arrested in Dubai for having a false Paraguayan passport.
According to the media, by publishing the document he managed to escape public attention there, but it sparked a political scandal in Uruguay that led to the dismissal of two ministers, two vice-ministers and an adviser to President Luis Lacalle Pou were removed from their positions.
Other Paraguayan sources assure that the Uruguayan drug trafficker, who disappeared after fleeing Bolivia after being alerted about an operation to arrest him, is hiding somewhere in the Guaraní jungle near the border with Brazil.
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