Canadian 2 Italians among lawyer murder victims
A Canadian two Italians and a Panamanian are the alleged murder victims of Panama lawyer Zoraida M. Saucedo, in 2017, as she moved like a shark in the waters of Panama’s real estate world: buying and selling properties, mortgaging them, processing loans setting up and flipping corporations.
Saucedo, a mother of two, graduated as a lawyer, in 2003 but never litigated reports La Estrella. Instead on the Open Corporates website, the name of Zoraida Saucedo appears in 203 Panamanian corporations: as a resident agent, in 80 companies; as a director, in 27; as a subscriber, in 64; with the position of treasurer, in 15; as president, in 8; and in 9 she serves as secretary.
La Estrella investigated some of the anonymous companies related to Saucedo, Showing deals with Venezuelans, Colombians, Spaniards, Chileans and Panamanians, to whom she sold apartments in Paitilla and Bella Vista, or facilitated the purchase of land in Colombia. She also created joint-stock companies for the administration of restaurants and bars,
One of the properties owned by Furio Ferrari Serra in Panama was an apartment in the Grand Bay Tower building, in the name of World Bridge International (WBI).
The company was registered in 2008, and, the name of Zoraida Saucedo appears in 2012 when the shareholders’ meeting is held and she acts as ad hoc president, in the absence of the owner says La Estrella.
In the minutes, the directors and resident agent are listed, with Zoraida Saucedo (president), Edgar Camarena (secretary) and Colombian Jorge Mondragón, (treasurer). All with the address in El Doral number 9, Panama.
The same address that Saucedo recognized as her own at a recent murder hearing.
On August 14, 2012, the company Chayim, SA, Zoraida Saucedo and the company WBI entered into a loan agreement with mortgage and real estate guarantee, entered into an investment contract in the amount of $120,750.00 on the Grand Bay Tower, in Bella Vista.
The investment was given an immediate discount for costs incurred to make the closing of the investment contract and legal expenses, administrative fees, and commission.
Chayyim S.A., has as directors Daniel Mahlke, Diego Quintero, Juan Agurto and Juan Manuel Villarreal. As a resident agent, Legacy International Business Consultants.
In front of the judge, Saucedo, charged with the murder of Furio Ferrari Serra and his Panamanian partner Marianela Rosela Vallarino, indicated that three properties of the Italian were transferred to Javier Francisco Sucre, alleged representative of Juan Díaz’s corregimiento, but he issued a statement denying any link with the lawyer.
Saucedo, 40, comes from a Las Tablas family of professionals.
The Prosecutor alleges that, through several corporations in which she had a broad power granted by their owners, the lawyer transferred the assets that belonged to her clients. When the owners died, she was the owner. “In some cases, I sold them without their knowledge,” she said, according to judicial sources.
The authorities established that the lawyer administered two or three properties of Ferrari, a retired plastic surgeon who lived in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
For several years everything went smoothly. Saucedo collected the rent from the tenants and sent them to Ferrari.
The bodies of Furio Ferrari Serra and his partner Marianela Rosela Vallarino were found on November 28, 2017, inside plastic bags in Las Cumbres, they were the guiding thread for the authorities to discover the presumed relationship of the lawyer with another double homicide: Canadian Qotlica Miomir and Panamanian Miguel Paes. known as the ”Chicano,” who was allegedly engaged in retailing illicit substances.
