Another judge accuses Moncada Luna
THE SCANDAL surrounding Supreme Court judge Alejandro Moncada Luna has widened after his colleague in the court Harry Diaz said the big spending judge had bought a beach house in Buenaventura, Panama’s exclusive Pacific resort
Diaz contacted by La Prensa on Monday, October 6 said that the full Court on Thursday will ask Moncada Luna for an explanation of his acquisition of two apartments in Coco del Mar, valued at $1,724,200.
“If Moncada Luna appears at the plenary on Thursday, I want to ask how he paid all that money and how the bought the millionare house of Ricardo Ricky Calvo in Buenaventura” he said.
According to Diaz, Moncada MoncadaLuna confirmed that Calvo a member of the “zero circle” of former President Ricardo Martinelli, sold the house over a year ago.
Therefore, he stressed that his counterpart will have to account for the properties reports La Prensa
Diaz wondered how a salary of only about $7500 are per month can make these millionaire. purchases
Expected to attend the full plenary on Thursday are the President of the Court, Jose Ayu Prado, and Vice President Luis Ramon Fabrega, who are on an official mission in Spain. Diaz was on vacation.
Last Thursday, Moncada Luna did not attend a meeting of mostly alternate judges, to clarify the purchase of two apartments.
Meanwhile, civil society organizationson Tuesdaysubmitted to the Assembly. a complaint against him for embezzlement and money laundering
The complaint is based, among other things on an affidavit Anne Bouche, former coordinator of the office of Moncada Luna when he was president of the Court.
The lawsuit, will requires the Legislature to separate it from office, stop him from leaving the country and publish a declaration of income of the five years before a judge of the Court, and investigate the realtor who sold the apartments in Coco del Mar