Today we were notified, in the morning hours, of the team of lawyers who are going to participate in the hearing that it was suspended,” because “there was a lack of international assistance of notifications from people who are outside the country,” explained the Superior Anti-Corruption Prosecutor, Edwin Juárez.
For today, the Third Liquidator Court of the Panama case was scheduled to hold the oral hearing, that is, the substantive hearing, in the Blue Apple case. The new date for the background hearing had previously been scheduled for August 16, 2022.
This investigation began in September 2017, and is related to the Blue Apple Services company created by several former officials with the purpose of allegedly laundering the money they received, paid as bribes and that came from state funds, by construction companies that carried out projects with the national government in the period 2010-2014, for which they also used the local and international banking system.
In this case, the Public Prosecutor’s Office was able to recover $32 million from the more than $82 million that was used for money laundering.