All news on the topic: Paraguay

A senator from Paraguay’s ruling Colorado Party has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for money laundering and criminal association tied to a scheme run by fugitive Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, one of the DEA’s most wanted.

Brazil has filed drug trafficking charges against Alexandre Rodrigues Gomes, the son of a former congressman with Paraguay’s ruling party who was killed in a police raid in 2024.

Vagner Keith de Freitas was indicted for allegedly trafficking weapons from Paraguay to criminal figures in northeastern Brazil.

Eulalio Gomes Batista had just been charged when he was shot in a police raid at his home.

Marset, who is wanted in the U.S. and Paraguay, styled himself as a music promoter across Latin America.

Forbidden Stories with its partners at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and five media outlets in Latin America and Europe will be publishing investigations on Paraguay. Three of the stories seek to continue the leads that murdered Paraguayan journalists were following.

The government said it had responded to breaches of legal and health data.

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña promised to "safeguard citizens’ rights and data in the digital age."

A group identifying itself as Brigada Cyber PMC uploaded a ransom note on the dark web, threatening to expose personal identity data if payment isn’t made by June 13.

Police are investigating whether an aspiring sertanejo singer secretly assisted in managing her brother’s drug operation using a false identity.

Paraguayan police killed a parliamentarian in a violent region of the country during a shootout that erupted in an overnight raid on his house where officers and prosecutors had arrived to search for evidence of his involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering.

The U.S. government announced new sanctions against Paraguayan tobacco company Tabacalera del Este S.A. (Tabesa) for financially supporting former President Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara, who himself was sanctioned last year for alleged corruption and ties to terrorism.

President Santiago Peña described the operation as "historic" and maintained that the fight against organized crime in Paraguay's prisons will not be easy or short