From the house where home prison is serving in Asunción, the former senator Edgardo Kueider He spoke for the first time by Zoom with an Argentine television channel. He said how his detention conditions are, and said he only watch television and read documents of the files of the judicial causes he faces in Argentina. He shares the house with Iara Guinsel Costa, his companion when he was intercepted on the border of Paraguay with more than USD 200,000 without declaring, but they have separate rooms, he said.
Kueider knows that if he returns to the country, he will be detained to the Ezeiza prison since Judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado requested in December his extradition for detention purposes, although the procedure has not yet advanced in Paraguay for formal issues. The Guarani authorities objected the way in which the application was submitted.
“I could have gone to Argentina that same night, I could have returned, I was not stopped. I was never detained. The statement occurred after voluntarily went to declare the prosecution in Ciudad del Este. But, before that I could have retired. In fact, one of the arguments that we exposed with the lawyers to the judge to tell him that there was no danger of risk of escape in the domiciliary. We did. I respect the laws. What seems unfair to me is that, if I have to return to Argentina, I have to go to the Ezeiza prison Because Mrs. Judge wants to show what issue, ”he added.
In Paraguay he faces a criminal process for smuggling and another for alleged money laundering. The former entrerriano legislator He said he wanted to return to Argentina to be with his children and relatives, and He admitted that his political future depends on how the judicial case endsalthough he did not rule out being able to return, if he concludes favorably for him.
He defended himself from the accusations for which he is being investigated in Federal justice and claimed to be a victim of a political and media persecution. Via Zoom, in an extensive report in the “Fund question” program (Channel 9, coastline), questioned the actions of that magistrate, and claimed to be innocent. “Today I am suffering a cause in which I have nothing to do, that begins with a false complaint of a journalist, For a false denunciation of a journalistic publication and say a rare interest from justice to link myself to something that nothing to do, ”he said.
Interviewed by the journalist Daniel EnzHe said he regrets having crossed the border from Brazil to Ciudad del Este, the early hours of December 4 with more than USD 200,000 without declaring in the early last December, which resulted in his house arrest in Paraguay. However, He argued that this seized money came from Paraguay, from “other operations” that “were not his”, And he stressed that he never wanted to escape from that country, and that he appeared to declare, and was not initially detained.
Almost without any contact with leaders of Argentine politics, he said that NAdie from the government of Javier Milei communicated with him; Nor the former governor Gustavo tablethat “never” called it. He only received very few visits from his family or a friend, although he assured that some call them to see how he is.
Throughout almost an hour, he insisted that “Everything that was said is false” and It was already socially convicted. “Then one speaks and can come to a journalistic investigation, but it was already judged. I know that I am not going to change anything with this investigation,” he lamented at the beginning of the interview ..
Very critical of the action in the investigation of Arroyo Salgado and the federal prosecutor Fernando Domínguezhe said they have no links with entrepreneurs investigated in the securitis case and denied that he had the power to decision regarding Energywhen he was secretary of government and right hand of Bordet. Said that “He was never an employee, official, director, or trustee ”of the provincial energy company. His only documented role was to have signed the minutes of annual assemblies.
He said that the accusation of illicit association faces in the Argentine Federal Justice is “fully grabbed by the hairs” and that the supposed money laundering is based on “ridiculous” and “incomprehensible” data. He complained about suffering “irreparable damage“For the actions of the justice of San Isidro for facts with which, according to him, he has” absolutely anything to do “, and regretted that former collaborators are currently detained.
The judge and prosecutor Domínguez investigate him in the securitis case and in that of alleged illicit enrichment, in which his cousin arrests occurred Javierof his friend and partner Rodolfo Daniel Gonzalezof his former secretary, and of counters linked to Kueider. In his gaze, there is a “total abuse of authority” by the federal magistrate and the prosecutor, and is considered an “scapegoat.”
In turn, the Justice of Concordia also investigates it for its assets, in a file promoted by the prosecutor José Arias. Kueider described the existence of two investigations for the same fact, in two different jurisdictions, such as “unconstitutional” and a “double political persecution.” The competition between the two jurisdictions was not yet resolved.
Kueider justified the purchase of the three departments in a luxurious building in the city of Paraná as an “investment” by his firm Betail to “maintain the value of money” after the failure of a chicken business, which would have been truncated by the pandemic.
