Martinelli son loses another court appeal
Two appeals made on behalf of Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Linares, son of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli and José Porta, both linked to the investigation of money laundering of bribes paid by the Odebrecht Construction Company have been rejected by the 12th Criminal Court.
Martinelli’s complaint was that the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office did not allow his lawyer Carlos Carrillo access to the file, nor was he given copies of the criminal proceedings in the Odebrecht case.
The Office of the Public Prosecutor said claimed that there are technical, technological and human limitations that prevent such copies from being delivered as quickly as required by the lawyers.
Judge Oscar Carrasquilla, denied the appeals on January 16. In another ruling of the same date, Judge Carrasquilla rejected an appeal of José Porta, who was the financial advisor of the presidential campaign of José Domingo “Mimito” Arias, for the 2014 elections.
Porta wanted the resolution of October 12, 2017, in which the Prosecutor’s Office called him to an investigation in the Odebrecht case, to be annulled.
