Attorney General faces media scrum

Attorney General,  Kenia Porcell answered questions on Wednesday, October 17, about the hiring of law firms by the presidency to provide services to the State in various processes followed for the possible commission of property crimes. “Anyone who knows the Prosecutor knows that since day one  I do not follow instructions from anyone,” she told reporters.

Porcell said that all tests are carried out in the presence of the parties. “If a defense does not agree with what is in the file, it can make use of all the incidents” or it can also request that it be re-done or the test annulled.

“With the aggressiveness that the defense has shown in these four years, I want to know  defense did not raise it [the alleged concerns]

Regarding the journalistic notes in which they mention it, she said that they were  “a rehash”. For “that

Refry they denounced me”, Why does it abstain from giving more details on the matter. The complaint is in the office of the Attorney General, Rigoberto González.

Last week, the Presidency of the Republic issued a statement in which it emphasized that the hiring of law firms was “necessary and indispensable”.

Among the firms hired to file complaints, complaints and lawsuits are the Panamanian Saltarín Arias and Legal Auditors; Tapia, Linares, and Alfaro; Arias, Fábrega and Fábrega; Icaza, González Ruiz and Alemán, and Morgan & Morgan, as well as the foreigners Hogan

Lovells; Shearman & Sterling, and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, among others.