Ex-judge’s son charged with peddling judicial rulings

Lawyer Oydén Ortega Collado, son of the former Supreme Court judge , Oydén Ortega Durán and Claudia Purcait, assistant to the former magistrate were charged by a judge of guarantees on Monday, September 2  with trafficking in influence, for the alleged sale of judicial rulings

The Chilean businessman César Alvarado Taylor was the one who filed the complaint against the son of the former magistrate who has not been placed in preventive detention.

The case comes at a time when the ex-judge is named in revelations by undercover operators of recordings of another Panama lawyer who claims he had paid major bribes to the judge. Ortega has denied the claims published in Spanish media