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Paraguay’s Peña loses top aides as impeachment trial resumes over failed bank
Compiled Nov 6
What happened
Top aides to President Santiago Peña resigned as the Senate resumed an impeachment trial Friday that could remove him from office
The detail
Senators rejected Peña's request for 72 more hours to respond to accusations
The detail
Ueno Bank, a digital lender, collapsed this week, freezing the savings of millions of Paraguayans
The detail
Interior Minister Enrique Riera resigned late Thursday, followed by chief of staff Javier Giménez and legal adviser Roberto Moreno on Friday
How it unfolded
before dawn Tuesday: Regulators seized Ueno Bank · Thursday: Prosecutors opened three criminal investigations into the bank's collapse · Thursday afternoon: Peña offered to resign as his own party turned on him · late Thursday: Interior Minister Enrique Riera resigned · Thursday: The lower house voted 78-0 to impeach Peña · early Friday: Police and prosecutors raided company offices and towed nine luxury vehicles from Vázquez's home · Friday: Chief of staff Javier Giménez and legal adviser Roberto Moreno resigned as the Senate trial resumed
By the numbers
72 hours extension request · 300 pages accusations and evidence · 78-0 impeachment vote · 30 votes conviction threshold · $800 million public funds held by Ueno
Still unresolved
The outcome of the three criminal investigations opened by prosecutors into the bank's collapse