Fleeing Corruption Charges, Ex-Panama President Seeks US Asylum
Fleeing Corruption Charges, Ex-Panama President Seeks US Asylum
Published 8 October 2015 (5 hours 41 minutes ago)
The former president is facing charges in Panama for accepting bribes, an illegal wiretapping operation and illegal insider trading.
With at least six corruption charges against him, Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli (2009 – 2014) is now seeking political asylum in the United States, according to reports from La Prensa Thursday.
The former president fled Panama in January – only hours before the Supreme Court announced that it would investigate corruption during his administration – and has been self-exiled in Florida, U.S. ever since.
Since then, at least six charges of corruption have been laid against him including embezzlement and wiretapping during his administration.
La Prensa reported that Martinelli's lawyers made the request for his political asylum in the U.S., since the former president's visa and legal time limit in the country is about to expire.
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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Fleeing-Corruption-Charges-Ex-Panama-President-Seeks-US-Asylum-20151008-0038.html
(I'm betting he's going to get political asylum here, and will move to Miami with the other right-wing slugs who screwed the people of Latin America.)