Martinelli accuser moves from jail to house arrest
THE FORMER Financial Pacific employee who has linked ex president RicardoMartinelli to the scandal riddle brokerage. Alleging he had a secret account involved in rigging market prices of Petaquilla Minerals shares has been move from a cell to her mother’s home in San Francisco, where she will remain under house arrest.
She is accused of financial offenses against the brokerage Financial Pacific (FP) and still, maintains her innocent and said January 29, that she hopes that the case will soon be clarified once and for all once and for and that the “real culprits” spend what she went through during two and a half years in prison.
She left, at 10:15 am, her cell ar the Directorate of Judicial Investigation (DIJ) in Ancon, under heavy police security. An auditor who first uncovered fraudulent dealings at the brokerage, disappeared and is believed by his family to be dead. A second investigator was stabbed on his way to the FP ofices.
Initially it was reported that Pellegrini would give statements to the media when she left the DIJ; but the transfere made without even giving notice to her lawyers. as corroborated by Kevin Moncada and Zulay Rodríguez reports La Prensa
It was in the lobby of the building, where she will remain under arrest, that she finally addressed the media.
Pellegrini, who has repeatedly spoken of the alleged involvement of Ricardo Martinelli with the brokerage referred to the criminal case that he will now face in the Supreme Court.
“The fish dies by a hook in the mouth ,” said Pellegrini, who added that Martinelli is now living just a bit of what she suffered. “The karma exists,”
Yesterday, the Full Supreme Court in extraordinary session unanimously decided, to admit a criminal case” against Martinelli, for alleged crimes against public administration.
Forensic doctors recommended Pellegrini’s release from jail because pr
isons do not have adequate conditions for the treatment and prevention of Osler Weber syndrome suffered by the accused. The report was supported by two others reports from Santo Tomas Hospital
The checks and medical treatment required by Pellegrini will begin next Monday, lawyers said.