Newly elected council president has embezzement jail term hanging

The recently elected president of the Municipal Council of San Miguelito and representative of the township of Belisario Porras, César Caballero, was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement to the detriment of the University of Panama (UP) reports La Prensa.

The information is contained in Edict 9 of January 5, 2022, issued by the Superior Court for Settlement of Criminal Cases of the First Judicial District, as a result of his defense processing a cassation appeal.

According to the document, in addition to the mayor, the criminal process includes four other people for the crime against the public administration, in the form of embezzlement, against the University of Panama.

Caballero, who received funds from parallel decentralization, is one of the corregimiento representatives close to deputy Raúl Pineda, also from the PRD.

Its community board received $6.6 million from parallel decentralization, which makes it the o corregimiento that received the most funds from the National Decentralization Authority