New York, 24 Mar Former Paraguayan MP Cynthia Tarrago Diaz was sentenced Thursday by a New Jersey state judge to two years and nine months in prison for her role in an international money laundering scheme, the Prosecutor's Office said in a statement. Tarrago Díaz, 42, who will have to pay $119,049, pleaded guilty on September 15 in a hearing before federal judge Freda L. Wolfson. Her husband, Raimundo Va, 45, who pleaded guilty a day later, will hear her sentence on April 14. Both were arrested on November 21, 2019 when they landed at Newark Airport (New Jersey). Tarrago was a member of Paraguay's Congress until the beginning of 2019 and by the end of that year he had announced his intention to aspire to the mayor's office of Asunción, the country's capital. According to US authorities, while in office, Tarrago and her husband agreed to accept about two million dollars from two people who presented themselves as drug traffickers, and who were actually FBI agents - and launder the funds through an international network of accounts to disguise their illegal origin. Along with the marriage, Rodrigo Alvarenga Paredes, a senior leader of a Paraguayan currency exchange company who is still in his country, was accused of the same charge. According to the indictment brought to him by the Department of Justice, Tarrago Díaz “shamelessly offered to wash the proceeds of international drug trafficking and even went to the extent of offering to deal in cocaine herself.” During the investigation, the undercover agents met with Tarrago and Va in the United States on numerous occasions and obtained video and audio recordings of their interactions with the marriage, including details of the money laundering network. The Prosecutor's Office explained that the undercover operation was carried out as part of an investigation into a money-laundering network, during which it was revealed that Alvarenga was coordinating the money laundering provided by Tarrago and Va. The money laundering conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $500,000 or twice the value of the funds involved in the conspiracy. CHIEF jfu/fix/jrh
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