Panama elite names surface in Italian prosecutor files

AS PRESIDENT, Ricardo Martinelli seeks to distance himself from the international corruption case being investigated in Italy, his name  continues to appear in the investigations of Italian prosecutors.

On November 6. in the light of new evidence which revealed that President Martinelli could have had a clandestine meeting with Valter Lavítola,  Naples prosecutors ordered the police, to visit the home where Lavítola was under house arrest., reports La Prensa.

Although Martinelli cannot be charged, prosecutors included him in a list which contains the names of Mayor Roxana Mendez, the president's cousin, Frankie Martinelli, and businessman Roger Oruna, very close to the president , all clearly "protagonists" of "passive corruption "(named as the party receiving the bribes), and whose role would help prove the case, according to Italian prosecutors.