The prescription of crimes and money laundering in the Odebrecht case The structure of the money laundering offense requires a predicate offense, which in the Odebrecht case has prescribed. In this analysis, lawyers debate whether it is necessary for the preceding crimes to be in force to be able to convict for money laundering ByAdelita…
https://www-laestrella-com-pa.translate.goog/nacional/220927/abogado-varela-apela-parlacen-defensores?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc The team of lawyers of former President of the Republic Juan Carlos Varela reiterated that the money received at the time for his candidacy for President and Vice President of the Republic and for the Panameñista Party, by the Odebrecht company, corresponded to political donations. Lawyer Orison Cogley insisted that they were donations, contrary…
https://www-laestrella-com-pa.translate.goog/nacional/220916/trama-sobrecostos-caso-odebrecht?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc On the fourth day of the reading of the tax hearing in the preliminary hearing for the Odebrech case, the breakdown of the millionaire amounts paid in bribes by the Brazilian company to various state ministers and other high-ranking officials during Ricardo’s government administration was revealed. Martinelli, through various companies. The reading of the tax…
https://www-laestrella-com-pa.translate.goog/nacional/220915/audiencia-preliminar-caso-odebrecht-relata-donaciones-campanas-politicas?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc The reading of the tax hearing of the preliminary hearing of the Odebrecht case focused this Thursday on the analysis of crimes against public administration, donations to political campaigns and the use of the Panamanian financial system. The third court liquidator of criminal cases of the First Judicial Circuit of Panama reported during the…
https://www-laestrella-com-pa.translate.goog/nacional/220913/jueza-marquinez-niega-incidencias-audiencia?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc The alternate preliminary hearing in the Odebrecht case began this Monday, September 12, with a list of incidents presented by the defendants’ lawyers, among which the prescription of the crime of corruption of officials was alleged and that exempted three former officials from being tried for this crime: Frank De Lima, former Minister of…
https://elsiglo-com-pa.translate.goog/internacional/ultraderechista-bannon-acusado-lavado-dinero-caso-muro-mexico/24208984?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc&_x_tr_sch=http In February of last year, the New York Prosecutor’s Office began an investigation against the controversial former adviser for alleged fraud against donors for the border wall with Mexico. The far-right and former adviser to former United States President Donald Trump, Stephen Bannon , was charged this Thursday by the New York District Attorney with crimes of money laundering,…
https://www-laestrella-com-pa.translate.goog/internacional/america/220904/cardenal-brenes-papa-francisco-informado-situacion-nicaragua?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes said this Sunday that Pope Francis is “super informed” about the situation in Nicaragua, where the government of President Daniel Ortega is keeping a bishop and seven priests under arrest for different reasons. “The pope is super informed. The (Vatican) secretary of state is well informed, so I personally laugh”…
https://www-laestrella-com-pa.translate.goog/nacional/220902/panama-promulga-decreto-crea-comision-ciudadana-corrupcion?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Nito forms groups, charters, commissions, etc for corruption. I have an idea. MIRROR Executive Decree No. 215, which creates the Citizen Commission Against Corruption, under the coordination of the National Authority for Transparency and Access to Information, was promulgated in the Official Gazette. The decree indicates that through Law 42 of July 1,…
https://elsiglo-com-pa.translate.goog/panama/tribunal-electoral-aclara/24208156?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc&_x_tr_sch=http The entity demonstrated that the information circulating on social networks is false After learning about the accusations of the Broad Front for Democracy (FAD) party, the Electoral Court (TE) released the figures of the people who remain registered in the different political parties. According to the TE, until August 25 there are 14 thousand…
https://www-laestrella-com-pa.translate.goog/nacional/220819/panama-fortalece-sistema-prevencion-blanqueo?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Panama updated the guidelines and guidelines for professionals who carry out activities subject to supervision, in order to raise the level of compliance with a risk-based approach, strengthen the money laundering prevention system, in order to favor the competitiveness of the country. This was established in agreement No. JD-02-2022, which replaces agreement No. JD-01…
