SENAD to carry out raids for more evidence against Chimenes Pavão

Asunción, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Paraguayan officers have carried out an operation in search of more evidence against Brazilian drug trafficker Jarvis Chimenes Pavão, regarded as one of South America´s major drug trafficker and who is being held at a local jail, Últimas Noticias reported.

July 10, 2023
15:18

The simultaneous national operation (named Pavo Real) includes some 30 raids already underway, the search of 32 people and the intervention of 11 companies.

The raids, conducted by the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) members and the Attorney General’s Office, were part of a wider probe into Chimenes, including seizure of properties in the Capital, Central, Amambay and Concepción departments, according to the newspaper.

Current proceedings originated in a financial and patrimonial investigation covering 30 years of criminal records.

In 2022, Chimenes was sentenced in Brazil for drug trafficking and money laundering, after being extradited from Paraguay.

The probe required other Paraguayan authorities, such as the Secretariat for the Prevention of Money or Asset Laundering, the State Undersecretariat of Taxation and the Directorates of Cadastre and Public Registries.

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