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Panama's ex President, Ricardo Martinelli, faces the justice, after being pointed for corruption during his government from 2009 to 2014.
Last monday, Panama's Supreme Court of Justice, rejected the appellation that he posed to oppose his prosecution for embezzling USD $45 millions from a State program. At an extraordinary meeting, the Court upheld its decision to approve a process is open to prosecute Martinelli. The former president, who ruled Panama from 2009 to 2014, is at the heart of a storm of political scandals for alleged acts of corruption committed during his government.
The Court, in a statement, "flatly rejected the two reviews" that Panamanian lawyer Rogelio Cruz and Raul Gonzalez filed against the decision of January preceding "who admitted the criminal case against Martinelli for alleged crimes against the public administration"
Accordingly, the board ordered that everything agreed in late January unanimously start running: to admit knowledge of the criminal case on Martinelli for alleged crimes against public administration and ask the Electoral Court to lift the immunity that has exgobernante in his capacity as president of the opposition Democratic Change and preventing criminal prosecution.
Faced with the decision of the Court in January, the ex President traveled to Guatemala to assert his immunity as a deputy of his country to the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) and supposedly be protected against possible charges against him. However, the Guatemalan former vice president Rafael Espada, president of the regional forum, said that it is false that the Panamanian politician is exempt from prosecution for belonging to that instance. "Martinelli has no immunity. If the Panamanian parliament does not give immunity, neither give us," said Espada.
After handing the presidency to Varela, Panama has been rocked by allegations of irregularities and corruption that occurred, presumably, within five years of management Martinelli.
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