In November 12 anticorruption bills were filed at Congress to reinforce Paraguay’s anticorruption framework. Their main characteristics are summarized below:

  1. Modification of provisions of Law 1,160/97 “Criminal Code”, typifying the criminal acts of: special confiscation of substitute value; subsequent order of confiscation; autonomous confiscation order; asset laundry; market manipulation; passive private bribery; and active private bribery.
  2. Modification of article 3 of Law 5,895/17 "Which sets forth rules of transparency for companies incorporated by shares", extending the term to exchange bearer shares for nominal shares until October 1, 2019, and establishing new sanctions for breaching such duty.
  3. Modification of article 46 of Law 5,876/17 "On the administration of seized and confiscated assets", to reorganize the form in which seized and confiscated assets must be distributed.
  4. "That creates the Secretariat of Financial Intelligence and establishes the System of Prevention and Mitigation of Risks of Acts Destined to Money Laundering", modifying Law 1,015/97 “On Prevention of Money and Asset Laundry”.
  5. "Which creates the special procedure for the application of confiscation, special confiscation, autonomous confiscation and deprivation of benefits and profits".
  6. "That creates the Registry of Final Beneficiaries of the Republic of Paraguay", to record the final beneficiaries of legal entities in Paraguay.
  7. By which articles 1, 2 and 3 of Law 4,024/10 "That punishes acts of terrorism, terrorist association and financing terrorism", modifying the criminal types, augmenting sanctions and incorporating the punishable acts of recruitment and indoctrination, terrorists militating abroad and advocacy of terrorism.
  8. By which Law 4,503/11 "Immobilization of funds or financial assets" is amended, including among other things: a detail of suspicious activities link to terrorism financing, proliferation of massive destruction weapons, terrorism acts or terrorist association; the obligation of subjects obliged by anti-money laundering laws to immobilize assets linked to these activities when they get to know they are in their power; and the way to judicially ratify such measure.
  9. "That prevents, typifies and punishes criminal acts of passive and active transnational bribery.
  10. "Establishing the procedure for the reception and dissemination of the lists of sanctions issued by the United Nations Security Council, as well as the inclusion and exclusion of natural or legal persons ".
  11. “Which creates guarantee and criminal enforcement courts, criminal sentence courts, criminal courts of appeal, and criminal prosecutors specialized in money laundry, drug dealing, kidnapping, terrorist financing, corruption and organized crime”.
  12. Which derogates article 3 of Law 4,673/12, suppressing the requirement of prior judicial declaration of breach in criminal acts related to tax matters.