Paraguayan Senator Convicted of Aiding International Cocaine Trafficker

A Paraguayan court sentenced Senator Erico Galeano Segovia to 13 years for money laundering and criminal association tied to fugitive trafficker Sebastián Marset, citing a cash real estate deal to a frontman, repeated use of Galeano’s aircraft by Marset, and laundering of proceeds through the soccer club Deportivo Capiatá. The court highlighted undeclared and later amended assets and a pattern of financial maneuvers to conceal illicit origins, while Galeano remains in office under parliamentary immunity and plans to appeal.