WHEN RICARDO MARTINELLI last visited Spain, as President of Panama, he made headlines in local newspapers as he did the social rounds, including dining with members of the royal family, who had played a significant role in commemoration ceremonies marking Panama’s 400th anniversary.
He is again in the headlines in El Pais in Spain, one of the country’s most influential and largest circulation newspapers. but this time the theme is one familiar to Panamanians citizens, “corruption”, focusing on the various cases that have enveloped the closest associates of the former president.
A prominent article headed: “A corruption scandal hits ex-president Martinelli”, recounts the cases of family, former ministers and former collaborators of the last government now behind bars.
It describes the ex-president as missing and in legal trouble "although apparently it is a kind of self-imposed exile in Miami. On March 2, the Supreme Court of Panama ratified a decision adopted on January 28 previous January to approve the opening of criminal proceedings to condemn the ex-president for alleged irregularities in the handling of $45 million in state contracts in the National Assistance Program (PAN), dedicated to giving food assistance to public schools." The story is familiar to all who live in Panama, but may come as a surprise to those who wined and dined him in Spain when he wore the presidential mantle.
He is again in the headlines in El Pais in Spain, one of the country’s most influential and largest circulation newspapers. but this time the theme is one familiar to Panamanians citizens, “corruption”, focusing on the various cases that have enveloped the closest associates of the former president.
A prominent article headed: “A corruption scandal hits ex-president Martinelli”, recounts the cases of family, former ministers and former collaborators of the last government now behind bars.
It describes the ex-president as missing and in legal trouble "although apparently it is a kind of self-imposed exile in Miami. On March 2, the Supreme Court of Panama ratified a decision adopted on January 28 previous January to approve the opening of criminal proceedings to condemn the ex-president for alleged irregularities in the handling of $45 million in state contracts in the National Assistance Program (PAN), dedicated to giving food assistance to public schools." The story is familiar to all who live in Panama, but may come as a surprise to those who wined and dined him in Spain when he wore the presidential mantle.
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