About seven private technical defenders will present their arguments today, in the ordinary hearing that follows against 29 defendants, accused of the crime of money laundering, after an investigation carried out by the Public Ministry in the Panama Papers case.

This Thursday, eight defense lawyers in this case completed their allegations and asked the court for an acquittal sentence for their representatives.

The ordinary hearing in the ‘Panama Papers’ case is chaired by the Second Judge of Criminal Cases of the First Judicial Circuit of Panama, Baloisa Marquínez Morán, who closed the session at 7:24 p.m. and will resume this Friday at 9 in the morning.

It is expected that today the seven particular technical defenders who are pending to participate in this hearing that began on April 8 against 29 defendants, for the alleged commission of the crime of money laundering, will culminate their allegations today.

The Public Ministry is represented by the prosecutor Against Organized Crime, Isis Soto, along with her work team composed of prosecutors Marcos Mosquera, Jennifer Escribano and Jhon Jairo Pittí.

The hearing also includes public defenders, assigned by the court, to intervene in case of the absence of some of the private technical lawyers.

The case consists of 528 volumes and is related to the alleged leak of documents, an investigation that began as a result of news events that were published in 2016, where it was linked to a law firm in Panama, which created and structured bank accounts and companies for money laundering.

In the investigation, the Prosecutor’s Office was able to accredit two lines of investigation strengthened, through international judicial assistance from the Republics of Argentina and Germany.

The Public Ministry during its allegations accredited the criminal responsibility of 26 people, of which 6 were accused as perpetrators, 15 as primary accomplices and 5 as secondary accomplices, while another 3 people were acquitted.