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Weekly Report - 27 February 2025 (WR-25-08)
PARAGUAY: Top brass embroiled in corruption scandal
Paraguay’s defence minister, Óscar González, announced this week that the spokesperson for the joint police and army task force Fuerza de Tarea Conjunta (FTC), Lieutenant Colonel Luis Apesteguía, had been dismissed from his post and reassigned pending an internal investigation within the armed forces into his involvement in a corruption network which appears to have penetrated most state institutions. The damage to the FTC’s image comes directly after it struck a decisive blow against one of the country’s guerrilla groups.
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