Election moonlighters face legal challenge

A LEGAL COMPLAINT about the possible commission of an offense against public administration was presented on Tuesday, September 23, to Panama’s Anticorruption Prosecutor against the former director of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises entity (Ampyme) Giselle Burillo and 13 other officials.

The complaint, filed by Ampyme’s counsel , Gurziz Sing Hill, says that in an audit of log in an out times form determined that some officers marked their attendance when not present at the institution.Others did not meet the eight-hour working day.

The denounced officials had been assigned to political centers during the last election campaign.

The legal adviser Ampyme said, according to the audit report, it was determined that the irregularity had been going on since January 2014.