Brazilian court calls for pretrial detention for ex-Paraguay president
By AFP
30 November 2019 |
6:21 pm
A Brazilian court issues a preventive detention order against former Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes in a money laundering case and includes his name on the Interpol red list, in the framework of the Car Wash probe.
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