Bank accounts of Martinelli appointee seized
ANOTHER prominent figure in the previous administration is under investigation for accumulation of assets not reflected by his salary while in office and The First Anticorruption Prosecutor has ordered the seizure of bank accounts of $4 million of the former director of the National Assistance Program (PAN) Rafael Guardia Jaén
Guardia appears as signatory and beneficiary, court sources confirmed.
The injunction issued by the prosecutor Nahaniel Murgas involves a cluster of eight cases that linked to the prosecution against Guardia Jaén, and the potential economic injury to the PAN.
“We were able to obtain bank information from the amounts that were in the bank accounts and time deposits are not commensurate with the salary of the accused,” said the source.
The former official accounts and deposits were located in Unibank.
Guardia Jaén, who was appointed as head of the PAN in August 2012 by President Ricardo Martinelli and held the post until June 2014, had a salary of $7000 per month. In 23 months in the PAN, accrued salaries of $ 161,000, before taxes and other deductions
Guardia Jaén has been in Cuba , where he underwent an operation, and will be called to testify in the coming days and it is possible that new precautionary measures will be issued against him reports La Prensa.
His wife, Silvia Andrión, right hand of another former director of PAN Tamburrelli Giacomo is listed together with their children in a private foundation