Senior prosecutors Nahaniel Murgas, Zuleika Moore, Adecio Mojica and Ruth Morcillo, who were sent on vacation on November 24, 2021 following a complaint filed by former Minister of Education Lucy Molinar, returned to their work at the Public Ministry (MP ).
Sources from the institution reported that some of these prosecutors were sent to assignments in offices created to attack the judicial backlog in certain specialties.
The only prosecutor who did not return for health reasons was Tania Sterling, who presented a disability.
Sterling had been sent on vacation for 45 days in June 2021, but that period was extended until this April 2022.
The complaint filed by Molinar against the prosecutors –for the alleged commission of the crimes of simulation of a punishable act, slander in legal proceedings, among others– was based on a statement made by Abraham Williams, also known as the protected witness Euro 14, who collaborated with the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office in the cases of alleged corruption detected in the extinct National Aid Program (PAN) and that would have been perpetrated during the five-year period 2009-2014.
In a hearing held on November 16, 2021, related to the process followed by the Public Ministry due to the allegedly irregular purchase of grains through the PAN, Williams mentioned that he was pressured at the time of giving a statement to link high-ranking officials of the administration of the then President of the Republic, Ricardo Martinelli.
