Arrest Ordered for the Woman Implicated in the Murder of a Swiss-Spanish Businessman. House Arrest was Revoked.
The businessman’s vehicle was embedded in a pole after the armed attack in Llano Bonito. The Superior Court of Appeals revoked the house arrest that had been granted to Miguel Ángel González on September 2nd.
The Superior Court of Appeals ordered the provisional detention in a prison of Yasury Elizabeth Gómez, charged with the crime of homicide of the Swiss-Spanish businessman Miguel Ángel González pictured below, perpetrated on April 15 in the vicinity of the Juan Díaz dock, in the city of Panama. Yasury Elizabeth Gómez owns a Honda Pilot vehicle used to chase and collide with the car in which the victim was traveling on the day of the events.
Judges Frank Torres, Yemajara Pedroza and Diego Fernández decided to revoke the house arrest measure that had been granted to her on September 2nd. The judges’ decision was based on the seriousness of the crime and the possible degree of participation in the crime. Three other people have been charged and arrested for the crime of aggravated homicide. The motive for the crime was the theft of 77 kilos of silver pictured below, valued at $300,000. Miguel Ángel González was a businessman who managed the brokerage firm Firmus Financial Inc., which has been operating in Panama for several years and provides investment advisory services.
Following the attack on April 15, several of the criminals headed towards the San Pedro area, where the gang known as Los Galácticos operates.
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Three Arrested in Murder of Swiss-Spanish Businessman Miguel González.
Panamanian prosecutors arrested three suspects in the April murder of Swiss-Spanish financial executive Miguel González, nearly five months after the ambush-style shooting. González was a longtime foreign resident and financial executive who lived in Panama for over a decade with offices in Costa del Este — the kind of profile many expats and long-term residents share. The arrests show Panamanian authorities are actively pursuing violent crime cases involving foreign residents, but the ambush-style attack near a major highway access point is a reminder to stay alert to your surroundings, vary routines when possible, and avoid predictable routes, especially if you drive a higher-profile vehicle or handle noticeable wealth.
Panama’s Public Ministry announced that three people have been arrested in connection with the April 15 killing of Miguel González, a 60-year-old Swiss-Spanish financial executive, nearly five months after the attack. Operation “Destello,” led by the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Homicide and Femicide Section with support from judicial and police intelligence units, carried out raids in Pacora, Las Cumbres, and San Miguelito, where five people were detained across several separate investigations. Two men and one woman are suspected of direct involvement in González’s killing, prosecutors said. González was ambushed while driving a gray Kia Sportage in Llano Bonito, near an access point to the Corredor Sur highway.
According to early reports, the attackers traveled in a white sedan and wore vests resembling those used by judicial investigators. After boxing in his vehicle, they fired more than 15 rounds, striking González in the back, thigh, and hip; he died at Hospital San Miguel Arcángel shortly after. González co-founded Firmus Financial Inc., a Panama-based brokerage, and had more than three decades of experience in international banking, having studied in Geneva, Switzerland, and worked in the Bahamas before settling in Panama over a decade ago. He had no criminal record in Panama. The suspects have appeared before a guarantees court.
