Martinelli back in Panama jail
Ex-president Ricardo Martinelli is back behind bars in El Renacer prison. He was discharged from Hospital Santo on Thursday, June 14 after forensic doctors from the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (imelcf) concluded that his condition “is stable”.
He had been transferred to Santo Tomas(HST) on Monday a couple of hours after Judge of Guarantees Jerónimo Mejía ordered him detained while awaiting trial for illegal spying on political opponents. journalists and businessmen The Supreme Court judge acting as prosecutor is calling for a 21-year jail term.
Martinelli was extradited from the US, earlier in the day after 364 days in a Federal Detention Center in Miami.
At a hearing on Wednesday evening in which the judge reviewed the reports and medical testimonies regarding his health condition,
The three specialist doctors of Imelcf who examined Martinelli at Santo Tomás l reported that his condition
“is stable”. Sharlyn Silva and Ricaurte González, forensics, and Olga Alvarado, legalist, who examined Martinelli on the night of June 12 June, explained that the acute condition that caused the hospitalization was compensated.
The doctors reported that in the clinical record of St. Thomas were the following diagnoses of Martinelli: hypertensive crisis, fibrillation, paroxysmal auricular, coronary disease, glaucoma, anxiety, ventral hernia, and prostatism. At a Tuesday hearing it was reported that while in El Renacer, Martinelli refused to take his medication.
Questioned by Dimas Guevara, lawyer of Martinelli, about different interpretations of the pathologies described, the team of Doctors emphasized that they were not entrusted with a diagnosis of the patient but a “legal medical evaluation”.
