Home comfort for corruption suspect

THE FORMER  director of the Institute of Agricultural Marketing (IMA) Edwin Cardenas  became the latest  suspect  to undergo his interrogation by an anti-corrruption prosecutor in the comfort of home on Wednesday August 3.

Cardenas is being investigated for alleged crimes against public administration for alleged mismanagement during his tenure, between July 2014 and April 2015.

On July 27 it was announced that Cardenas underwent a medical evaluation at the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences after undergoing knee surgery.

Earlier in the year the brother of former president Ricardo Martinelli, got the same kid glove treatment at his home in Costa Del Este, although the next day he was able to go to a business meeting.

During the investigation of Cardenas, prosecutors have made several site inspections of regional offices and warehouses of the IMA, located in the provinces of Bocas del Toro, Chiriqui and Veraguas.