Day 24 of Martinelli wiretapping trial
The wiretapping trial of former President Ricardo Martinelli concluded its 24th day on Friday, August 27 without his presence as the defense presented a disability that began to apply on August 21 and runs until September 19.
The hearing focuses on the reading of documentary evidence in the seven booklets presented by the prosecution to support the theory of the case, evidence that the defense rejects for lack of chain of custody, but has already been explained by the Prosecutor’s Office, that when they were collected, the process did not exist.
When the trial was restarted on Wednesday after a three-day recess the prosecutor Ricaurte González, estimated that within three weeks the reading could be concluded.
More th half of the booklets have been read during the last three weeks. they contain the transcript of the emails that were intercepted from the victims.
The emails read Thursday and Friday are of a political nature, dating from May 2012, when the victims already suspected that they were being intercepted and that they would file complaints.
The defense of the former president stated that he is waiting for the reading of the booklets to be completed to bring his witnesses to the stand and to cross-examine the prosecution’s witnesses.
They said that with this they will unmask the irregularities committed by the Public Ministry and thus achieve a ruling in favor of their client who follows the trial electronically.
