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Paraguayan police continue raids on drug trafficker’s assets

Asuncion, Jul 11 (Prensa Latina) Paraguayan anti-drug agents continued Tuesday with 12 raids on properties of Brazilian drug trafficker Jarvis Chimenes Pavão.

The investigation by the Attorney General’s Office and the National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD), which began under the name of Pavo Real on Monday, focuses on searching properties involved in money laundering set up by Chimenes Pavão, held at a prison in Paraguay since 2022.

The operation, which seized $150 million and arrested 12 suspects on Monday, is supported by the National Secretariat for the Administration of Seized and Confiscated Assets (SENABICO), the State’s agency to which the money will be transferred.

Daniel Montenegro, lawyer and husband of Public Prosecutor Katia Uemura, as well as Carlos Oleñik, financial operator and legal representative of several companies linked to renowned politicians of the ruling Colorado Party, were among those arrested in Monday’s operation, ABC Color reports.

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