Lava Jato prosecutor asks for 8 hours to present arguments

On the fourth day of the hearing of the “Lava Jato” case, the intervention of five defense witnesses was scheduled, and the pleadings stage began.

During the first three days of the trial, presided over by the second liquidator judge of Criminal Cases, Baloisa Marquínez, the experts and witnesses summoned first by the Prosecutor’s Office and then those of the defense lawyers of the 32 cases involved participated.

The second superior prosecutor against Organized Crime, Isis Soto, said that the first witness on Wednesday made a complete analysis of the case file and the analyst who installed the program to analyze the material seized from the Mossack Fonseca law firm also testified.  

Soto asked the judge for eight hours to present her final arguments. At the beginning of the argument period, prosecutor Soto detailed each of the 32 involved in the case and told the judge that during her intervention she will detail what she will ask for each of them.

She also expressed that she will prove how illegal goods were covered up and hidden.

Soto clarified to those present at the trial that illegal acts were also committed in Brazil. She also stressed that the crime of money laundering affects the Panamanian economy and all the countries where it is committed.