Ex-First Lady Office embezzlement trial

A REQUEST  has  been  made for the   embezzlement trial of suspects involved in  the  $5.1 million purchase of 110,000 Christmas bags by the office of the former First Lady. Marta de Martinelli.

The First Anti-Corruption Prosecutor has asked the  Fifteenth Criminal Court to hear the case against  former National Assistance Program (PAN),  director Rafael Guardia Jaen and businessmen Pablo Ruiz Obregón and Aldo Mangravita Fernández Mirand and five former officials of the PAN and the Office Of the First Lady for the alleged offense of embezzlement in 2013.