Corruption scandal in prosecutor’s office widens
(Newsroompanama.com) The uncovering of narco trafficking influence in Panama’s public prosecutor’s office, has produced a storm of accusations and counter accusations.
The head of Human Resources of Public Prosecutions, Eva Lorentz, currently in Austria, on Monday, December 20, lashed out against the office of stand in Attorney General Attorney's Giuseppe Bonissi as the corruption scandal widenened.
Speaking on the TV Rangefinder Report, Lorentz said Bonissi allegedly knew of several anomalies in the prosecution of Los Santos and Herrera, and did nothing.
Lorentz said that in that office evidence was handled in an unthinkable manner and spoke of money hiding in the ceiling.
Lorentz also denounced the corruption case a "smokescreen", a plot by drug prosecutors and the Attorney General.
She called for Bonissi be separated from his position "For moral outrage should. He should leave and be investigated, she said.
Last week, Bonissi, uncovered a web of corruption involving officials of the Public Prosecutor.
Earlier in the year, he replaced Ana Matilde Gomez who had been prosecuted and given a jail sentence for using a wire tap when investigating a corrupt prosecutor. Bonissi ordered the sacking of three attorneys,while he made arrangements to remove and order the arrest of Lorentz.
The general secretary of the Public Ministry, Nedelka Diaz, who is in London, England, spoke angrily about allegations made by Bonissi, against her and announced that she will return to Panama.
"If they treat me badly ... I can work on the street " she said on Telemetro Report.
Diaz's reaction comes after yesterday's Office deputy prosecutor sent to the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court a request to be informed if it had legal authority to dismiss her and investigate her as general secretary of that institution.
According to Bonissi, Diaz has been officially implicated in the corruption case involving the illegal release of four accused of drug trafficking in Azuero.
Diaz said today on the television channel "I have no complaints with my life”" and reiterated that her whole career has been in law enforcement.
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Original Source: Newsroompanama.com
Date Retrieved: December 22, 2010.
