Trial call for Martinelli era Minister

THE SIXTH Anti-Corruption Prosecutor has asked the  Fourth Criminal Court to call Alma Cortés the stand-in leader  of the CD party to trial for alleged unjustified enrichment.

The request was sent to the court, on Friday,  May 19 confirmed judicial sources.

In the document the prosecutor Aurelio Vásquez, also asks for the  trial of  five others because of  alleged involvement in the judicial process.

Cortes was investigated after an audit by the Office of the Comptroller Genera showed an  unjustifiable increase of $2.5 million, in her assets

In August 2016, Cortes was held in preventive detention.. Two weeks later she was released after posting a $300,000 bail bond.

On multiple  occasions, Cortes, a former cabinet minister in the Ricardo Martinelli administration has repeated the mantra of her former boss that prosecutions of those alleged to have lined their pockets during his reign, are political persecution.  She claims that  Prosecutor  Vásquez has violated due process.