Canal board member may face Interpol alert
A BUSINESSMAN who has been avoiding an appearance before Panama’s organized crime prosecutor to answer charges of money laundering, is facing a new process for the alleged crime of corruption of officials.He has also been given a deadline to appear to deal with the original case or be placed on an Internet alert.
The first anti-corruption prosecutor, Tania Sterling, has opened a file for alleged corruption of public servants, resulting from the investigation for money laundering, related to the accounts of former Supreme Court Judge, Alejandro Moncada Luna currently serving a five year prison term.
The man, now facing two investigations linked to Moncada Luna, is Nicolas Corcione Perez Balladares, a member of the board of the Panama Canal Authority, (ACP)
Nahaniel Murgas Special Prosecutor against Organized Crime has set a deadline this week for Corcione to appear because, or , a request for an Interpol alert will be issued
A source at the Public Ministry (MP), told La Prensa that the defense lawyer has been notified, repeatedly, to appear for questioning, but did not show.
The source said that although Corcione’s lawyer filed a motion of dispute before the Sixteenth Criminal Court to request that it be investigated under the rules of adversarial criminal justice system, the prosecution process does not stop.
It was reported that the anti-corruption prosecutor’s, process would include : Corcione; former vice president Felipe ‘Pipo’ Virzi; Maria del Pilar Fernandez, wife of Moncada Luna; the lawyer Felipe Rodriguez Guardia; Jorge Espino, Julian Paris, Maria Gabriela Reyna, Humberto Juarez, and Space Concepts, SA, which was assigned the renovation of the Maritime Court.
The prosecution has issued citations for taking affidavits to former officials of the Supreme Court. and people linked to Moncada Luna.
