OPINION: Judicial bribery scandal widens

The scandal of the Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito San Antonio, RL (Cacsa) deepens. It now includes a new chapter, related to the subtraction of information from the lawyer’s computer that helped draw attention to this scandal. If this serious complaint about the deletion of email archives is true, they would show that there is a further interest in silencing the dispute, in order to avoid investigations.

 At the center of this plot, Panamanians see our justice reflected, full-length. The charges against Cacsa are very delicate since they imply that payments were approved to cover possible charges to members of the Supreme Court of Justice, and thus guarantee a favorable outcome in a civil law suit.

 This reminds us of the revelations that a Panamanian lawyer made before potential Russian clients in Spain, in which he recognized how judicial influence was acquired – by way of bribery – to magistrates of the Court. Precisely, for all that is at stake, the case of Cacsa requires the greatest possible clarity. In these times nobody pays more without expecting anything in return. – LA PRENSA, Oct.29