'Torrijos sent the money to be distributed in Cemis case' said Balladares

Former President Martin Torrijos is involved in the case Cemis, said today the former president Ernesto Perez Balladares.

Balladares, who ruled Panama from 1994 to 1999, said that through personal research, he found that Torrijos is linked directly to one of the most notorious political scandals in recent years form.

"I investigated at the time by my own interest, because Martin has always denied that it had absolutely nothing to do with the issue of Cemis" said Balladares, also knows as 'El Toro' in Telemetro.

Balladares, who maintains an internal struggle for power with Torrijos of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), said he has strong evidence against the son of General Omar Torrijos.

"I did my research that pointed me something contrary to what he was saying", he said. However, the tests referred Balladares were dismissed by the courts because audios and interviews he conducted with witnesses, were made without the consent of the same.

"There was a judge who was investigating ... I did deliver some of the evidence I had, and then at the end, were not legal evidence because they were not recorded with the consent of the people who said that."

The politician said that through their testimony, corroborated that Torrijos " who sent the money to be distributed" to several members of the National Assembly to aprove a law that would create the International Center Multimodal and adoption services (CEMIS) in Colón.

However, former legislator Carlos 'Tito' Afu, who played in the PRD, held a conference to show wads of cash, indicating that the project proponents tried to bribe him and other deputies.

At the time, Afu said that bribery was $6,000, but Balladares said it were $20,000.

After years of complaints and requests for the perpetrators of this scandal of corruption are found, the Supreme Court closed and reopened the case .

The last thing you did in judicial matters in this case , was to exclude research Torrijos .

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