Martinelli food scandal case can move forward

LAST WEEK’S ruling by the Supreme Court that a time limit on investigations of members of the Central American Parliament (Parlacen) is unconstitutional, means that the case against former President Ricardo Martinelli, over the purchasing of  $45 million of dehydrated food can move forward.

The court’s president Jose Ayu Prado, said that the unanimour decision will be ratified November 29.

On the same day  the plenary will also discuss the objections submitted by President Juan Carlos Varela to the law 214, which amended the Shield Law.

According to the President, four of the articles of the law are discriminatory and create privileges. The document had reduced the time to investigate not only deputies but the President of the Republic and the judges of the Court themselves.

The speaker in this case is the judge Oyden Ortega, prosecutor in the case against Martinelli in the dehydrated food case