With the left foot began the second legislative term of the National Assembly (AN), after again being tarnished its image with an incident in which a deputy is involved.
The population began to just forget the embarrassing event starring the deputies Katleen Levy and Zulay Rodríguez in extraordinary session last December, when five days after the installation of the new period comes out another incident in which is mentioned the deputy Juan Manuel Poveda, Veraguas.
Following the arrest of advisor Poveda in a vehicle with drug, he revealed a new irregularity on the use of the plates delivered to them parliamentarians.
Action led President of the Legislative Body, Ruben De Leon, to order the removal of the plates to all members to change the layout and included in the "Pele Police".
However, this is not the only event in which any officer of the Assembly is exposed to the public. On December 11, 2015, the exfuncionaria of this state body Ofelia Acevedo Cano was arrested for carrying concealed in a false bottom of a road a total of 856,000,940 US dollars, allegedly from drug trafficking.
Upon investigation, it proved worker Acevedo current deputy Alfredo "Fello" Perez, 8-4 circuit (Chepo, Chimán, Taboga and Balboa). In addition, he had served as administrative assistant II in the Assembly and earned two thousand US dollars per month.
President Juan Carlos Varela made strong statements of cases that keep coming because the authorities are investigating other officials in illegal activities.
Acts
Otherwise, the alternate deputy of Mario Lazarus, Samuel Bennett, have been charged for allegedly committing the crime against the economic order in the form of money laundering.
Bennett was taken to court in October 2014 because it was found $29,800 in an operation in Rainbow, Columbus.
In February 2011, units of the National Police seized 140 kilo of cocaine in a vehicle traveling on Currency, Herrera, who was using Deputy Raul Pineda plate.
In 2006, the son of the deputy Leandro Avila substitute, Nicomedes Castillo Martinez, was arrested along with three men who tried to rob some tourists. Although it is a subject that has been discussed for several years, it was in the previous government when the former Minister of Security Jose Raul Mulino, launched a warning that the drug trafficking networks had penetrated Panamanian politics.
The former official said that this scourge be entering polling stations that are landlocked and port structures.
Hechos
- Narcotráfico
- El expresidente de la República Ernesto Pérez Balladares reconoció en 1996 que recibió 50 mil dólares del traficante José Castrillón Henao para su campaña electoral de 1994.
- Ministerio Público
- La concesión de libertad a cuatro presuntos narcotraficantes le costó el cargo de procurador de la nación, en 2010, a Giuseppe Bonissi, quien renunció al puesto, agobiado por las críticas.
- Vehículo oficial
- En mayo del año pasado, en un vehículo del Ministerio de Salud procedente de Darién, se hallaron 33 kilos de drogas, cinco personas fueron detenidas por este caso.
- Ifarhu
- A mediados del pasado mes de diciembre, 35 paquetes de cocaína fueron hallados en un carro del Ifarhu.
