By Daniela Desantis

ASUNCION (Reuters) -Former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes said on Monday that the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had lifted sanctions imposed on him two years ago for his involvement in acts of alleged corruption.

The announcement followed a statement on the OFAC’s website in which the former president and several of his companies were removed from a list of what the OFAC calls “specially designated nationals.”

The OFAC had slapped Cartes with sanctions in 2023, citing “rampant corruption,” which the former leader has repeatedly denied.

“With humility and satisfaction I receive the news of the lifting of the OFAC sanctions that weighed on me,” Cartes said Monday in a statement on X.

Cartes, who governed Paraguay between 2013 and 2018, is

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