Lifting of arrest warrants for Martinelli brothers denied

The Second Settlement Court for Criminal Cases issued two rulings in which the preventive detention order is maintained and another referring to the detention for extradition purposes for the brothers Ricardo Alberto and Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares in the cases called Odebrecht and Blue Apple, in both processes they are pointed out for the alleged commission of the crime of money laundering.

The legal defense of the children of former President  Ricardo Martinelli, led by lawyer Carlos Carrillo, had requested the suspension of both arrest warrants.

A statement from the Judicial Branch said that the Court decided that ” it is not feasible to annul the aforementioned preventive detention order against these two people, since it has been reviewed and debated extensively at the time of resolving what concerns the requests for release bonds, which were even raised on appeal, in compliance with the principle of double instance; therefore, it proceeded to reject the said request outright”.

Regarding the suspension of the arrest warrant for the purposes of extradition of the Martinelli Linares brothers -detained for another cause in the United States- the court indicated that to date, the Court has not formalized the corresponding procedure, therefore it cannot be left without effect “an act not deployed” so it is inappropriate