Secret contract leads to $23 million no bid deals

AFTER signing a "secret" $2.3 million contract offering secretarial with a company linked to the lawyer Francisco ‘Frankie' Martinelli, that offered " secretarial services and the company, a Metro – Panama subcontractor – received direct state contracts for amount of $23 million.

In November 2011 , for example, says La Prensa, the same year that the contract "secret" deal was signed Sofratesa of Panama Inc., received from the Civil Aviation Authority a direct no-bid contract of $21 million to build and equip the new building in the of air traffic control center located in Albrook.

The corporate nexus of Frankie Martinelli in these businesses was operated through three front men, says La Prensa, one of them his former driver Rodny Núñez Soto , who signed the "secret " contract in a detailed report including copies of documents.
The documentation for Sofratesa was managed a by the firm Patton , Moreno & Ashvat,  which fired Frankie Martinelli. the president’s cousin. He was also linked to the construction of a building in the exclusive area of Coco del Mar in s detailed exposure report, illustrated with copies of documents.