Financial Pacific scandal a media invention — founder

 Financial Pacific scandal a a media “invention” — founder
THE SCANDAL surrounding Financial Pacific (FP) and the disappearance of the man conducting an audit of the brokerage, finally liquidated after reports of criminal involvement and money laundering , is all a media “invention” according to a former director.

West Valdés, founder of FP), said Thursday, November 20 in a message on Facebook that all the information reported so far on the legal and financial situation of the brokerage house is an “invention” of the media.
Valdés is also claiming that there are six detainees in the case, rather than the two confirmed by officials to La Prensa. So far, there are 13 defendants in the case.
He also said Hernan Cortés, one of the defendants, is “stuck” with another defendant, Mayte Pellegrini, and that he allegedly had an account with $1 million in it.
Cortés was ordered held under preventive detention in October. Pellegrini has been jailed for nearly two years.
West also denied that Vernon Ramos, an auditor with the Superintendency of Securities who was working on the FP case when he went missing in 2012, had anything to do with FP.
“He never put a foot inside FP,” West wrote. “At the time of the disappearance he was liquidating a company whose owner had also disappeared.”
In this regard, Victor Ramos says that Valdés might be referring to Spartan Securities House, which was under the intervention of his brother Vernon, when he disappeared.
However, he said that the authorities believe that the head of Spartan fled the country.
Telemetro journalist Álvaro Alvarado said Valdés has agreed to a live interview, news that was welcomed by Zulay Rodríguez, lawyer for Pellegrini, who said Valdés should “stop hiding.”
“If [Valdés] has evidence against Pellegrini, please, introduce it to the prosecutor’s office,” said Rodríguez.
She emphasized that Pellegrini cannot be responsible him for the mismanagement of FP because she was not a director.
“She did not allow or transfers of money. Everything that was done was authorized by the directors,” the lawyer said.