ENGLISH VERSION Roberto Eisenmann tries to justify his political grandson

The preventive detention of Pablo Ruiz Obregón, husband of the Robert "Bobby" Eisenmann granddaughtersby order of the Second Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, would be privileged, even though Monday night he became the second detainee in the case of employer alleged irregularities in the purchase and distribution of school bags.

The entrepreneur Pablo Ruiz Obregón is married to Vanessa Romero, granddaughter of the permanent president of a newspaper named La Prensa, Roberto Eisenmann, who has received a media treat.

From that newspaper (La Prensa), Obregon has received a campaign to support the thesis of his non-participation in the irregularities of the distribution of backpacks in Darien, sector of the country where the employer was responsible.

Indeed, after knowing the detention of Ruiz Obregón, Eisenmann wrote in his Twitter account: "I have tears in my soul for my beloved granddaughter and her two 'pelaítos' (kids), our great-grandchildren. Her young husband, to accept work of his father... was arrested".

"I was surprised when he get arrested, because there was a media campaign made by La Prensa to form the impression that in this case was another entrepreneur who had committed a crime, but supposedly this guy had done nothing", said the lawyer Victor Almengor, who is defending Poulett Morales whom preventive detention was also turned.

Special treatment

Since last June 2, Obregon was benefited with a preferential treatment from second fiscal of corruption, Vielka Broce, who was careful to don't exposed the man to the media as was done with Poulett Morales, the other entrepreneur investigated.

In the first statement, Broce said he received "documentation justifying" the non-appearance of Obregon, when the only statement delivered was a text of his layer.

"With the arrest ordered yesterday, the prosecutor tries to wash the face of La Prensa and her own, because they has committed many mistakes in this investigation," said Almengor.

Yesterday at noon, and out of the extensive statements time, defense attorney Obregon Gustavo Pereira, called preventive detention ordered by Vielka Broce as "excessive, extremely severe, unadjusted to the procedural reality of him (Obregón) or with prudential requirements. "

Pereira argued that his client didn't represent a scape risk or danger of overlooking the process, stressing that preventive detention ordered by Broce against Pablo Ruiz Obregón "is totally alien to the procedural reality".

And when the journalist asked him if the interview there was pressure to accuse others, specifically Mario Martinelli, the lawyer Pereira was evasive: "We only have to show", he told journalists who asked him.

He confirmed that he will present "right actions" to appeal the detention.

The truth is that an investigation by the DIJ in Darien provides enought evidence to presume irregularities committed by the company Hialing Corporation, whose representative is Pablo Ruiz Obregón.

And strange as it may seem, the investigation of the DIJ was used as sustenance to order the detention of Poulett Morales from APM suplies, even though this last company did not have to hand out backpacks in Darien, but in the west of the country.

In Morales detention, fiscal Vielka Broce also left out 100 documents signed by the Meduca confirming that all bags had been delivered, and a document signed and delivered testimony into their own hands by the school principal Daniel Octavio Crespo, at Chiriqui.

The employer Ruiz Obregón can also be involved in the case of the purchase of grains, in which he is accused of crimes against public administration, corruption of public officials, embezzlement and fraud.

Appeals to innocence

In his defense, Pablo Ruiz Obregón denied being linked to Rafael Guard Jaen, noting that his company, Hialing Corporation, had won contracts exceeding the limit Guard Jaen, executive director of the PAN, could approve.

He even claimed that the grain purchase orders must first pass through the board of PAN and under the control of the Comptroller.

The board of PAN was made at the time by the ministers of the Presidency, Public Works, Education and Social Development, and a deputy.

Ruiz Obregón tried to justify how the products ordered by the PAN were sold to the state at higher than market price, but without representing over prices. However, he could not explain the method by which a contract was awarded for $4 million 500 thousand.

He would also have worked with the company Vafepa, which had the same partners and used the same system of revenue sharing of Hialing operations, which received the same invitation for bidding out services.

Attorney delay the investigation against Ruiz Obregón

The Second Anti-Corruption Prosecutor is investigating the purchase of 600 thousand bags at a cost of $ 12 million through the National Assistance Program (PAN) from two months ago, however, so far now driving order against businessman Pablo Ruiz Obregón is rotated.

The entrepreneur Poulett Morales was inquired into on 16 April by the prosecutor Vielka Broce, who would be leading the investigation into the alleged commission of crimes against public administration, and who nowcalled Ruiz Obregón.

Morales stated that the project was 100% transparent and she was interested in people to know it "I came not only to talk, but to bring extremely important for this research evidence," said the businesswoman after having volunteered.

The accusation also relies on the APM Supplies and Comercializadora Galbedusa, owned by Morales, had sold backpacks and appliances to the Ministry of Education (Meduca) and the National Assistance Program.

The purchase request was also turned the July 14, 2011, before the alliance between CD and Panameñistas broke, to include in the agenda of a Cabinet analyzing a resolution to contract directly with three companies that offered the service.