Prosecutors find a hidden vault in former President Santiago Peña's mansion in Paraguay and fail to open it

FinanceInternationalEl TiempoNov 9, 2026, 8:54 AMAI summary

A team from Paraguay's Prosecutor's Office and National Police raided former President Santiago Peña's summer residence in San Bernardino, Cordillera, on Sunday. In one room they found a corridor leading to a door with a digital password and facial recognition, hidden behind a false wall, which would correspond to a vault with a second entrance of Israeli manufacture. The agents could not open it. The raid was carried out over the crimes of breach of trust and administration for personal gain, for which Peña was charged in the Ueno Bank case.

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Paraguay's Prosecutor's Office and Police raided Santiago Peña's summer residence in San Bernardino, about 50 kilometers from Asunción.
Behind a false wall they found a corridor leading to a door with a digital password and facial recognition, which they could not open.
According to ABC Color, it would be a vault with a second entrance of Israeli manufacture, 'level 7', with at least four security filters.

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Ueno Bank
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