Prosecutors in high profile cases return from  enforced ”vacation”

Superior prosecutors Nahaniel Murgas, Zuleika Moore, Adecio Mojica and Ruth Morcillo, who were sent on vacation on November 24, 2021, following a complaint filed by former Minister of Education Lucy Molinar, returned to their positions.

It was reported that some of these prosecutors were sent to assignments in offices created to attack the judicial backlog in certain specialties. While Morcillo, he will return to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. He was a prosecutor in charge of several high-profile cases.

Sources from the Public Ministry (MP) specified that the only prosecutor who did not return for health reasons was Tanía Sterling, who presented a disability reports La Prensa.

Sterling had been sent on vacation for 45 days in June 2021, but that period was extended to this April 2022.

The complaint filed by Molinar against the prosecutors of the MP was based on a statement made by Abraham Williams, also known as the protected witness Euro 14, who collaborated with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office in the cases of the National Assistance Program (PAN).

In a hearing held on November 16, 2021, Williams mentioned that he was pressured at the time of giving a statement to link high-ranking officials of the administration of former President Ricardo Martinelli.

However, his lawyer David Cuevas stated that what his client did was point out to the judge that he had been subjected to pressure before giving his testimony, during his testimony, and afterwards, to involve government officials in his statement and he never agreed.