The ex baseball player and donor campaign of Juan Carlos Varela companie, Carlos Lee, were popular during the management of Edwin Cardenas at the Institute of Agricultural Marketing (IMA) in the first 8 months of the Panamanian government.
On Wednesday, the Comptroller presented an audit for an injury of $5.3 billion on the Food Programme Solidarity of IMA, in managing Cardenas, between 1 July 2014 and 26 March confirmed 2015.
It was determined that there was no planning in the procurement process, as in the management and distribution of food products, reulting in "excessive payments not timely processing of containers and goods received in the shipping ports". The report was handed over to prosecutors.
A report from IMA, revealed by Panama America in February 2015, became known as Cardenas, also marked by nepotism, granting contracts and purchases under the same mechanism used in the National Programme of Support (PAN) of direct contracting by invitation discretion of the entity.
This is how the ex baseball player and other entrepreneurs became with millionaires contracts for the supply of food and shuttle with variable rates across the country.
The report revealed that Lee recieved four contracts in October 2014 for $ 1.9 million.
Moreover, Cardenas adopted an open contrac to Lee, wherebyhe could billed millions, exclusively to transport all food imported suppliers of IMA, through Inversiones El Patroncito.
For example, the IMA would pay $990 to Lee for moving a container from the port of Balboa to Cañitas de Chepo.
Following these rates established in the contract. To Chame it would be $600, to Las Tablas $1,135 and to Bugaba $1,600. That is, Lee would have achieved exclusive contract, allowing it to make millions of dollars with the IMA.
Lee was not only giving of Varela, but then the presidential candidate was renting the ex baseball player helicopter. Varela came to accumulate a debt to Lee, which proposed using redeem his luxury yacht Centuria, was acquired as part of the "zero cycle" of the government of Ricardo Martinelli, where he was vice president and foreign minister.
