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Bolivia, Paraguay health-sector anti-corruption probes

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Bolivia, Paraguay health‑sector anti‑corruption health-sector anti-corruption probes

In mid‑July 2026 mid-July 2026, Bolivia’s legislature intensified scrutiny of public finances after following a major corruption scandal. Deputy Julieta Jiménez called for reinforced fiscal control of the National Health Fund (CNS), ordering audits by the state comptroller, the Ministry of Economy Economy, and the Justice Ministry. Documentation supplied by Deputy Andrea Ballivián highlighted that 44 million bolivianos had reached the personal accounts of five officials, prompting an interpellation of Health Minister Marcela Flores. A week later later, Deputy José Maldonado backed a proposal to recover 233 million bolivianos spent on the annulled 2019 election and to curb fraud in social‑benefit social-benefit programs. The plan involves the prosecutor’s office and the comptroller, introduces a new household‑registry household-registry system financed by a $12.5 million IDB loan, and earmarks $485 million for the Renta Dignidad program. In early August August, retirees of the CNS filed a formal complaint urging the public prosecutor to investigate general manager Germán Hoyos over a suspected overprice in a 43 million‑boliviano CT‑scanner purchase, citing technical and economic irregularities and million-boliviano CT-scanner purchase. Further investigations revealed a prior arrest 2025 report from the Procuraduría regarding a court sentence against two CNS officials involving the irregular purchase of hospital equipment in El Alto, resulting in an economic loss of 54.37 million bolivianos. Additionally, a former manager. 2023 report identified a suspected network in Cochabamba that allegedly sold nursing positions and contracts for up to $3,000. Parallel investigations in Paraguay have progressed. On 4 August, former Instituto de Previsión Social (IPS) president Jorge Brítez, aged over 70, Brítez was placed under house arrest after posting a bail of 1,000 million guaraníes. bail. Prosecutor Julio Ortiz charged Brítez, ex‑president ex-president Vicente Bataglia Bataglia, and eight other former IPS officials with misappropriating roughly 61 000 61,000 million guaraníes through contracts for modular operating‑room operating-room projects and equipment that were never installed. Lawyer Rosa Colmán from the IPS legal department also received house arrest. Bataglia fled to Italy on 23 July before a detention order was issued. These developments underscore a regional focus on alleged misuse of public funds in national health‑insurance institutions.

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  1. 2026-08-09 00:52 UTC Bolivia, Paraguay health-sector anti-corruption probes
  2. 2026-08-06 14:24 UTC Bolivia, Paraguay health‑sector anti‑corruption probes
  3. 2026-08-05 03:18 UTC Bolivia anti-corruption oversight and fund recovery

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