OPINION: Judicial complicity as corrupt slip the hook

Hoyporhoy La Prensa. June 16

IN RECENT  weeks, slowly, like a stealthy drip, the Second Court of the First Judicial District is revoking the decisions of the circuit courts that hear cases of high-profile corruption, and is releasing one by one , entrepreneurs and  former officials  suspected of embezzlement and money laundering.

The arguments presented are full of subterfuge and false syllogisms, which always lead to freedom or to bail. The findings are serious: Either circuit courts are committing manifest arbitrariness and ineptitude; or their superiors in the judiciary are resisting  justice in Panama. What is the intention of the High Court judges? Their behavior and failures only reveals a deep complicity with a twisted and opaque system that is hostage to the interests of the Panamanian people. If these judges seek to make the tired and discouraged public prosecutor abandon s investigations against the corrupt, it is up to the citizens say, loud and clear: Panama wants justice. No to impunity.