Appeals Court revokes dismissal decisions

THE FORMER  Minister of  Micro, Small and Medium  Enterprises (Ampyme) Giselle Burillo, will be facing criminal trial after a Panama appeals court revoked two dismissals that a lower court had ruled in her favor.

Both proceedings are for the alleged commission of the crime of peculation (embezzlement of state funds).

In a ruling of August 30, under the presentation of Judge Adolfo Mejía, the Second Superior  Court revoked the provisional dismissal ordered by the Sixteenth Criminal Court in November 2016 in favor of Burillo and six other people, as part of the process related to the rental of mobile plants.

on November 21, 2016, the sixteenth criminal judge, Enrique Pérez,  had granted a provisional dismissal in favor of Burillo and the ex-employees of the Ampyme

in the process related to a supposed surcharge of $58,072  in contracts for the supply of transport services for the movement and transfer of mobile plants in the country.

Another  investigation was related to alleged irregularities in 38 purchase orders to a company that did not even have rental vehicles