Ex-Vice President moved to prison
EX -VICE PRESIDENT, Felipe Pipo Virzi, has been movedf rom the transitional cells of The Directorate of Judicial Investigation (DIJ) to the El Renacer Prison where former collaborator and ex-Supreme Court judge Alejandro, Moncada Luna is serving a five-year sentence for corruption.
The Seventh Anti-Corruption Prosecutor ordered his provisional detention on August 17 after charging him with money-laundering, when he allegedly diverted part of the loan awarded by the Caja De Ahorros (CA) savings bank to the consortium HPC-Contratas-P & V to the former securities firm Financial Pacific (FP).
Prosecutor Leyda Sáenz also charged former employees of FP, Mariel Rodríguez (compliance officer); Ori Zebedes (shareholder, director and treasurer); and Carlos Osorio, Baleysi Pineda and Josué Absalón Chávez.
Also Charged with money laundering are ex-FP directors Iván Clare and West Valdés, and José Virzi, brother of Pipo Virzi.
Pipo Virzi is facing corruption charges in several other cases.
