The legislative initiative that establishes the medicinal use of cannabis or marijuana is ready for the second debate in the National Assembly If approved, the ministries of Education, Health and Commerce will be responsible for the surveillance, control and regulation functions; There will be a period of 90 days to create the regulation. Medical guilds…
Trader Nidal Waked returned to Panama yesterday, two years and six days after being arrested in Colombia, at the request of the United States, where he finally pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money. Yasser Williams , Waked’s lawyer in Panama, confirmed the return of his client, although in the United States the process is…
On Wednesday, May 2, prison sentences against people who commit a crime of animal abuse begin to apply . This was recalled by the organizations Spay Panama, Angels of Animals, Foundation San Francisco de Asis and Patas y Pies, and a group of independent rescuers who celebrate this validity. People who are convicted of any…
Producers must have local citizenship or proven residence in the country and will be subject to controls by the Government Zimbabwe legalized the production of cannabis for medical or scientific purposes as long as it has an official license, the state newspaper The Herald reported today. The news was announced by the Zimbabwean Ministry of…
The Seventh Anti-Corruption Prosecutor ordered the arrest of Salomon Jack Btesh and Valentín Martínez Vásquez in the investigation carried out for the alleged commission of the crime of money laundering by transfers from the investment account of Jal Offshore Ltd. in Financial Pacific ( FP). The arrests of Btesh and Martínez occurred after they surrendered…
The Public Ministry initiated yesterday a series of proceedings in the cases of Financial Pacific and the bribes of the construction company Odebrecht. In this way, the entity ordered conductions to people related primarily to the Financial Pacific case, and simultaneously issued a statement on the reactivation of the Odebrecht investigation, after the Second Court…
Experts believe that suspensions of hearings should not be allowed PROCESSES The Observatory of the Judicial System (OSJ) of the Republic of Panama is concerned about the current stagnation of justice, especially in processes in which the future of the investigation is at stake for the prescription of criminal cases. In the presentation of the…
The Seventh Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office yesterday issued orders to investigate 18 people, as part of the process that follows for the alleged commission of the crime of money laundering, linked to the alleged use of privileged information at the Financial Pacific (FP) stock house during the government past (see list). The investigation is related to…
The Anticorruption Special Prosecutor ordered the conduction for investigative purposes of José Porta Álvarez , one of those investigated by the Odebrecht case . Porta Álvarez was treasurer of the campaign of José Domingo Arias , candidate for the presidency of Cambio Democrático in 2014. This is one of the first actions undertaken by the…
The questioned ‘legislative shrimp’ promoted by the deputy Roberto Ayala, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), and that repealed Law 2 of February 10, 2015, regarding the contract law with the company PSA Panama International Terminal, SA, in charge of the operation of a container terminal in Rodman, was not a subject unknown by deputies…
