This Tuesday, November 16, Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares will appear before Magistrate Judge Marcia M. Henry, in the prosecutor’s office for the Eastern District of New York, to review the arraigo measures.
Nilda Rosario, a journalist in New York mentioned that, upon the arrival of the former president’s son, Ricardo Martinelli to the United States, after 6:30 pm, the Court was closed, so she does not know where Luis Enrique spent the night.
He added that James G. McGovern, lawyer for the children of former President Ricardo Martinelli, appeared this Monday in the New York Court to request the documents of the person involved and hear the case of his client.
Rosario explained that the lawyers that Martinelli Linares maintained in Panama and Guatemala have already lost their jurisdiction, for this reason, new lawyers take up the case.
The journalist indicated that “everything is very transparent here, the federal prosecutor’s office has a site on Twitter where it sends the press releases. All the newspapers are talking about this extradition. There is an Internet page where you can go and see the schedules of what is going to happen with it, because it is something public ”.
He affirmed that, since his arrival in New York, he is mentioned only as Luis Martinelli, “they don’t call him Luis Enrique.”
On the afternoon of this Monday, November 15, Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares arrived in New York, United States after his extradition from Guatemala.
Upon his arrival, he was taken to the Brooklyn Bridge detention center, where the prosecution for the Eastern District of New York asked a federal judge to order the permanent detention of Luis Enrique due to a possible risk of flight.
In a letter that James G. McGovern, defense attorney for both sons, attorney for ex-president Ricardo Martinelli, which he presented in New York Court, states that the Martinelli brothers would be willing to plead guilty to at least one of the three charges against them, for allegedly conspiring to launder money from Odebrecht, and consent to the seizure of $ 19 million in assets.
“The forfeitable assets include a considerable amount of funds deposited in Swiss banks that would have been very difficult to recover without the agreement of the Martinelli brothers to plead guilty and to take measures to facilitate the access of the United States to those funds,” says the lawyer. in your writing.
According to McGovern, three months ago, anticipating that this plea deal would go through, his clients transferred $ 1.7 million to the US government.
Counsel proposes a $ 3 million bail package, guaranteed by $ 1 million in cash; the promise to remain confined to a rented apartment in Manhattan; the delivery of the passport or any other travel document, and remain subject to supervision until the trial is held.
The jurist expressed that there is no reason to think that the children of former President Martinelli could escape and less to Panama, where he assures that the prisons are recognized as dangerous.
James G. McGovern is a renowned attorney who served as a prosecutor in the Eastern Court of the United States. He knows very well how he knows the federal system and his firm is recognized in other countries and is based in Washington DC and London.
