Orua-Lavtola-Martinelli corruption triangle Italy prosecutor

“It is proven that there was a corruption agreement processed by Rogelio Oruña and Valter Lavítola to drive bribes to Ricardo Martinelli said the chief prosecutor of the Court of Naples, Vincenzo Piscitelli, to the College of Judges of the Sixth Section C, chaired by Judge Giovanna Cepalluni.

With the style of forensic narrative, Piscitelli on Friday November 28 chronologically recapitulated the evidence relating to the extortion of Italian company Impregilo to fund the construction of a pediatric hospital in Veraguas, worth about $22 million, in exchange for future bids for public works that the Martinelli government would award them
In  three hours of exposure conclusions, the prosecutor used, at least two to explain other unlawful conduct attributed to the defendant Lavítola in dealings  with Panama, including being an intermediary in the alleged diversion of $25 million in bribes in the awarding of contracts to Finmeccanica or its alleged maneuvers in the corruption linked to the failed construction plot of modular prisons by the company Svemark.
In a year of joining dots of the puzzle, the prosecutor has determined that Lavítola starred, along with businessman Rogelio Oruña and president Ricardo Martinelli, in a network of complex blatant corruption, with a background of blackmail and threats to Impregilo reports La Prensa.
At the end of his speech, the prosecutor opened a new Panama-Brazil corruption scenario, indicating to the judges evidence of corruption in the bidding for Metro Panama, “the biggest award of the country after the Canal” in July 2010.
Not only did he doubt that the draft submitted by the consortium of Spanish FCC and Brazil’s Odebrecht was technically superior to that of Impregilo, but stated that Lavítola “exercised a corrupting channel in Brazil” to mediate for the giant construction company,
“That the project was better I think not. Martinelli preferred the Brazilians. Who knows what they got with it,” he said.

The prosecutor brought up the conversation of Lavítola, with journalist Juan Solés while under house arrest, when he revealed that the total of the bribes totaled between $850 million and $900 million, and much came from the Panama Metro.
On that occasion, Lavítola added that he was instructed to transfer money from bribes of 20% to numbered accounts in banks in tax havens,
The Prosecutor has opened another investigation from these revelations.
In addition, Piscitelli gave the judges press releases that contained the recent macro research involving Odebrecht in a multi-million scheme of corruption and bribery of state Petrobras, which would have favored politicians and businessmen of Brazil.
Lavítola has already been sentenced to one year and four months in prison for trying to extort the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and two years and eight months for embezzlement. The two prosecutors who judge him (Rome and Naples) intend to apply, in total, five years and 11 months … 11 months for international corruption and one year for extortion cases linked to the attempted construction of hospital Veraguas, plus another four years for corruption linked to Finmeccanica.
He is also awaiting trial on corruption in the missed modular construction of prisons by Svemark and promotion of prostitution.