Impeached Paraguay leader charged over shock implosion of bank

ASUNCION, Paraguay: Paraguayan prosecutors charged ex-president Santiago Pena and took him into custody Saturday over 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, 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, thereby stripping him of the immunity he would have

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