Call center embezzlement suspect gets jail taste

FORMER Immigration Director Maria Cristina Gonzalez  spent Monday  night July 18 behind bars after her first day of interrogation by anti-corruption prosecutors.

After her Tuesday session of questioning she was ordered not to leave the country and to report to officials every Monday and Friday.

Gonzalez  was interviewed about her alleged role in the operation of a call center run by the Ricardo Martinelli’s  Cambio Democratico (CD) party  during the last election. Prosecutors allege that the call center was funded with state money.

Gonzalez spent Monday  night in the facilities of the Directorate of Judicial Investigation in Ancón,.

She is facing charges of offenses against public administration (embezzlement)