Paraguay’s President appears before prosecutors after bank collapse leaves half of population locked out of accounts

Crisis: Pedro Alliana is sworn in as president of Paraguay (Reuters)

Paraguay’s impeached former President Santiago Pena has appeared before prosecutors following a financial crisis that left half of the country unable to access their bank accounts.

Mr Pena was taken to the Attorney General’s Office in the South American nation after being placed under house arrest on Friday. One opponent described the case as the ‘biggest corruption scandal in our demo...