ASUNCION (Paraguay), Nov 8 — Paraguayan prosecutors charged ex-president Santiago Pena and took him into custody Saturday over a banking crisis that saw millions of people cut off from their money, sparking major protests.
Pena, Paraguay’s youngest-ever president at 47, was removed from office by the Senate on Friday, just 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, stripping him of the immunity he would have enjoyed had he stepped down.
In a fast-moving sequence of events, Pena was brought before prosecutors on Saturday and charged with “breach of trust and mismanagement for personal gain.”
