State Dept. Designates Paraguay's Vice President, Counsel
The State Department last week designated Paraguay's Vice President Hugo Velazquez and Juan Carlos “Charly” Duarte, legal counsel for the Yacyreta Bi-National Entity, for “significant” corruption. The agency said Duarte offered a bribe to a Paraguayan public official to “obstruct…
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an investigation that threatened” the vice president and his finances. The State Department also designated Velazquez’s immediate family members: Lourdes Maria Andrea Samaniego Gonzalez, Dionicio Adalberto Velazquez Gimenez, Sonya Rebeca Velazquez Escauriza and Hugo Jose Velazquez Escauriza. Also designated were Duarte’s immediate family members: Ninfa Concepcion Vera Moreira and Tamara Duarte Martinez.