The official report informs that until July 7, Judge Baloisa Marquínez, the same judge who headed the criminal process for the New Business case, in which former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014) was accused, will lead the hearing.

Nine private technical defense attorneys will participate in the hearing, and in case of the absence of any of them, seven alternate public defenders were appointed, in order to guarantee that right.

The process links more than thirty citizens for the alleged commission of the crime of money laundering, among them the founders of the extinct law firm Mossak Fonseca, Ramón Fonseca and Jürgen Mossack.

This case, a file of 293 volumes, is related to an investigation that began in 2016, as a result of media reports, originating in the Lava Jato operation in Brazil, which linked a law office in Panama with the creation of corporations, whose purpose was the mobilization of illegal funds.

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