Former Paraguayan president Santiago Pena was charged with 'breach of trust and mismanagement for personal gain'. (EPA Images pic)ASUNCION: Paraguayan prosecutors charged impeached ex-president Santiago Pena over his alleged role in a banking crisis that saw millions cut off from their money and sparked major protests.
Pena, Paraguay's youngest-ever president, was removed from office by the Senate on Friday, three days after the collapse of a leading bank with which he had business links.
He had offered to resign but lawmakers impeached him instead, thereby stripping him of the immunity he would have enjoyed had he stepped down.
In a fast-moving sequence of events, he was brought before prosecutors on Saturday and charged with "breach of trust and mismanagement for personal gain".
