High profile businessman heads to jail on money laundering charges
Businessman Jean Figali, under investigation on charges of money laundering, has been transferred to El Renacer Prison, said his lawyer José Gabriel Carrillo
The attorney said that he plans on filing an appeal based on the fact that Figali was never afforded a chance to post bail.
"Figali was not at large or fleeing the jurisdiction," Carrillo said Friday.
Figali , a naturalized Panamanian of Lebanese origin, is owner of the Figali Conventio Center and had his Amador landfill site, fronting the center seized by the government soon after President Ricardo Martinelli took office.
The center has been used for a Miss Universe final and has hosted many visiting music and dance performers.
At Renacer, home to largely white collar criminals, entertainment will be limited to TV.
Prosecutors asked that Figali be held in preventetive detention after he was arrested July 7.
