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 1 for crimes against the economy national. In addition, the provisional dismissal for 11 people and a final dismissal.

“Yesterday the Public Prosecutor’s Office was notified via mail of the Mixed Order, where the Third Liquidating Court issues a summons to trial for 36 people, dismisses 11 people, provisionally, and definitively dismisses one of them and declares, well, The order to proceed for the legal entity is not viable, this, as it has notified the MP, we understand that it is notifying all the parties that are part of this process,” explained the superior prosecutor Ruth Morcillo.

To analyze the appeal, the MP has the days of November 8 and 11, since the 10th is a national day. In addition, to support the resources, prosecutors would have three days of next week.

In the same resolution, Judge Baloisa Marquínez determined the ordinary hearing date, both for the primary date and for the alternate date, for August and September of the year 2023, respectively.

Meanwhile, prosecutor Mahmad Daud, who was accompanying Morcillo, indicated that they have a strong case where the evidence is evident. “Nobody is above the political Constitution and the law, and the MP in the ordinary hearing will ask for an exemplary sanction, for all the people who in one way or another violated the criminal law. We have reiterated it, this is a historical case, It is the largest money laundering case that the Republic of Panama and the region has had,” said Daud.

And he added: “In the MP team we are sure that in the ordinary hearing an exemplary sentence will be achieved for all the defendants who have been called to trial.”

With the trial of 36 people, the MP has fulfilled part of its main objective.