The delay of the Judicial Branch in those cases in which local authorities have been sentenced for crimes against the public administration, was questioned by sectors of civil society, after the representative of the township of Chilibre, the PRD Yoira Perea, who was sentenced to 60 months in prison for a crime of embezzlement, was…
Panama, corrupt since ancient times? Corruption, throughout Panamanian history, has been entrenched at all levels, becoming ‘almost an institution,’ says historian, geographer and diplomat Omar Jaén Suárez. Corruption is also one of the most important ‘challenges’ facing the country because it distorts the economy and the sustainable development of societies ( Hint- Hint ) …
The presidential calls of the pro-government Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) begin to accelerate the pace and draw up their strategies to achieve their plans to be elected in primaries as presidential standard-bearer of the largest political party in the country. The PRD has already announced that its primary elections will be on Sunday, June 11,…
The Vice President of the Republic, José Gabriel Carrizo, has intensified his appearance at inauguration events for public works or works financed by the State, a few months after a ban was issued for pre-candidates and candidates for popularly elected positions to participate in inauguration events of Public Works. Although a pre-candidate for Vice President…
The Public Ministry has two business days to analyze whether to file an appeal in the Odebrecht case. The MP was notified by mail by the Third Settlement Court for Criminal Cases of Mixed Order No.09 of November 7, 2022, in which 35 people were called to trial for crimes against the economic order, and…
For those that are soccer fans (like me), there is an interesting documentary on NETFLIX about the awarding of the World Cop of 2022 to QATAR. Indeed it was an odd and curious choice. Much ado of fraud and kickbacks started the investigations into FIFA. Now other groups are investigating the safety involved in the…
I have covered many times in the past and through the years, what I like to call the “PANAMA WAY”. As a very young republic, and one that truly did not have independence until the canal was fully handed over, PANAMA has developed it’s own way of going along. With the rhetoric of politics starting…
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…
