Panama lawmakers reject expense audits

When a team of auditors from the Comptroller General’s office arrived at the National  Assembly on Wednesday, May 16 to conduct a forensic audit of questionable spending by lawmakers, Yannibel Abrego  President of the National Assembly, in a meeting with lawyer Jerry Willson, refused to accept the presentation note.

The staff of the National Directorate of Forensic Auditing were to begin the audit of form 080  covering  3,508 officials under for “other personal services”  amounting to scores of millions of dollars.

The President of the National Assembly,   and did not allow the audit team to begin the audit.