Paraguayan banking scandal hits football, with at least 10 players affected

The financial and political crisis in Paraguay over the closure of its biggest digital bank, Ueno, is set to spill over into football, with at least 10 local players and even South America’s governing body for the sport, CONMEBOL, among those affected. On Monday, Paraguay’s Central Bank took control of Ueno Bank, a fast-growing digital lender with close ties to President Santiago Peña, freezing the funds of nearly 3 million customers after finding that its solvency ratio had fallen below the legal minimum. Almost half the population of the country has been affected, among them at least 10…