$500,000 bail for Ex-Land Management boss

 BAIL FOR the former director of the National      Land Management   Authority (Anati) Franklin Oduber,  has been  set at $500,000.

His lawyer Isaac A. Figueroa Jr. introduced a written notification of the order of December, 21 to  the Fifteenth Circuit Judge on Tuesday, December 29.

Figueroa in, stressed that Oduber was granted “the benefit of the release.”

Oduber was denounced in an alleged case against the government and has been detained since August 11.

The Second Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office ordered the preventive detention  of Oduber, in the case of helicopter hire through the National Assistance Program (PAN).

On June 24, 2014 Panamenista  Deputy Jose Luis Varela denounced an Anati plan put together to deceive the public and deal with allegations of spying on opposition politicians during the election period, and gave Franklin Oduber orders not to answer questions from the media, including the newspaper La Prensa.

Varela released an audio in which Anati  officials  among them allegedly Oduber, could – be heard    discussing the reactions arising from spying with helicopters on the  residences  of presidential candidate Juan Carlos Varela, his brother Jose Luis, the presidential candidate of the PRD, Juan Carlos Navarro, and his running mate, Gerardo Solis, and the facilities of the Hacienda San Isidro, in Pese, owned by the Varela family.