The Public Ministry reported that it is following up on the hearing that takes place this Friday, May 20, 2022, before the Federal District Judge Raymond J. Dearie, of the Eastern District of New York, United States, in which a sentence to Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares and Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Linares, found guilty of participating in an international scheme of bribery and money laundering.
In said hearing, the details of the reading of the sentence will be known by the Senior Prosecutor for International Affairs, Agustín Almario Castillo, and the Senior Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Mahmad Daud Hasan, who traveled to New York City this Thursday, May 19.
The Public Ministry reiterates that in Panama, the criminal process involving the company Odebrecht SA, Messrs. Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares and Ricardo Alberto Martinelli Linares, and others, is processed in the inquisitorial criminal system in the Third Criminal Court Liquidator with a preliminary hearing date scheduled for July 18 to August 6, 2022, for the qualification of the investigation and in accordance with the provisions of articles 2222 and 2225 of the Judicial Code of Panama, after the issuance of the order of trial, the process will be opened to evidence, corresponding moment in which the Public Ministry, represented by the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor, will request the court of the case, in writing, the evidence that it will use in support of its requests, including international legal assistance that correspond.
