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The representative of the company Petquilla Gold denies the version of the extrabajadores of the mine that report that gold is being extracted clandestinely.
Recently the Ministry of Labor made a surprise visit to the facilities of the mine, located in the District of Molejón. After the inspection, Mitrab indicated that the workers were engaged in mineral extraction, using machinery and handling dangerous chemicals without any precautions.
The report states that clandestinely and without complying with minimum health, safety and hygiene measures at work, workers were putting their lives at risk.
The company spokesman, Jorge Obon, says that the "group of workers belongs to the security group that must take care of the property and that they are giving maintenance to the mine, a mechanical group that is trying to save the plant." Obon says that every six months the company, which closed operations in early 2014 and faces a series of administrative proceedings in court, submits to the Ministry of Commerce and Environment a report on the state of facilities which includes cleaning up Areas and stabilization of mining structures, as a sample of compliance with the work of the company recommended by the authorities.
Despite the suspicion of Eric De León, general secretary of the industrial workers' union and at the end of Panama, "the mine has an energy generator and we estimate that gold has been extracted for about two months without the authorities putting a Finally, we were denouncing the Ministry of Labor. They have everything enabled according to De León with the use of chemicals without any supervision, "said the trade unionist.
According to the trade unionist in the mine "there was an inventory of coal loaded with gold that they have been processing, the question is who are they selling that gold and where is the money going if they have not fulfilled the commitments they have with the workers Product of Social Security payments, "he said.
Obon refutes these statements. He explains that the electricity generator is intended to give energy to the maintenance workers, which includes, according to the report sent by the spokesman, the stabilization of the embankment of the southern dam in a tailingshed 1 for erosion control, prevention of sedimentation And the promotion of revegetation, remediation of hydrocarbon spills and other chemical substances in the areas of electrical generators, plant cleaning and other works.
During the visit of the Ministry of Labor on April 21, the workers were immediately evicted and the activities were closed on the grounds of security, in compliance with Article 109 of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Panama, Articles 282 and 283 of the Labor Code, relating to health, safety and health at work, as well as Article 13 of ILO Convention No. 81 on Labor Inspection.
This is what was mentioned in the article I posted earlier.......and I quote.....l
He indicated that by the middle of this year, Petaquilla Gold could enter the preoperative stage for the extraction of minerals, but without commercial purposes.
Read the forth paragraph from the bottom !!!!!!
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Judge does not suspend suit against Fifer
Olmedo Rodríguez 21 Apr 2017 - 00: 00h
Topics: CSS Richard Fifer Petaquilla Gold Supreme Court of Justice
Richard Fifer, in the audience. Expand Image Richard Fifer, in the audience.
Richard Fifer, in the audience. Ana Rentería
In a closed-door hearing, Coclé Province's Compliance Court did not accede to a request from the Social Security Fund (CSS) to revoke the suspension of the process against the former governor of Coclé Richard Fifer , for the alleged Retention of quotas of Petaquilla Gold and Panama Development of Infrastructures .
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Compliance judge Domingo Montenegro determined that he could not accede to the suspension of the process, because the agreement between Fifer and CSS for the payment of the quotas owed establishes a period of three years for its fulfillment, and that time has not ended.
The alleged quotas amount to $ 3.1 million, in the case of Petaquilla Gold, and another $ 3.3 million in the Panama Development of Infrastructure.
Humberto Ledezma , legal representative of CSS in the process, said the petition was made based on the employer's failure to meet the monthly payment.
Meanwhile , Tomás Góndola, lawyer of Fifer, indicated that there was no argument to open the process. Gondola said that his defendant is going to face the commitment with CSS, and assured that a partial payment was made in December 2016 of the quotas, although he acknowledged that in 2017 they have not fulfilled the payments.
Fifer said he is willing to fulfill the commitment, but asked the CSS to inform him the final amount of the debt.
He indicated that by the middle of this year, Petaquilla Gold could enter the preoperative stage for the extraction of minerals, but without commercial purposes.
The Court of Compliance announced to the parties that next August 11 will be a hearing to address the issue of late payments that the employer maintains with CSS.
The lawsuit is being investigated by the Sixth Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office and was suspended since February 4, after a Coclé guarantor judge accepted a request from Fifer's lawyers to reach settlement with the CSS.
Fifer has been unable to leave the country since August 2016.
Thanks for your input Snirre. Time will tell I gues.....and hope !
I wish I could give you a solid answer, but I can't. I know I hold an empty bag. If PTQ rises from the ashes I have no idea what happens to the previous bagholders. Maybe someone else could answer this question ?
You are welcome Snirre but I am only posting what I read. This mine would have done well if a) the country as a whole was not corrupt...and secondly....b) to make it worse, the guys running the company were also corrupt. Go figure. We got it two fold up the butt.
As the saying goes.....there's gold in them hills ! It's going to take a lot of money to replace and reactivate the mining equipment.
The million dollar question is.....if the mine re opens, who will the contract go to ????????
Hey Snirre.......when I stated he skated on this mess, that's what I meant. He got away with screwing shareholders and of course the workers that were owed millions. Last thing I heard, he was supposed to be doing jail time for his crimes....apparently not now. The way the article read is that something has been worked out but the details have not yet been released.
As for the mine and the fate of PTQ....who the hell knows. There was an article stating that they wanted to revive the mine but your guess is as good as mine if that actually happens. And if it does, which company will do it ? Will PTQ rise out of the ashes ?
I can honestly say that I am a major bag holder of this turd.
My only source for information is La Prensa ....for what it's worth.
If anyone still reads this board, Fifer may very well have skated on this mess. Look at the article in LA Prensa dated Feb 4th 2017. Sorry I couldn't attach the link.
alex e. hernández 14 ene 2017 - 00: 00h topics: mici (ministry of commerce and industries) financial pacific cut supreme of justice petaquilla gold the deposit of where petaquilla extracted gold for a value exceeding the 200 million of dollars nowadays is a lake artificial that is has formed for the accumulation of water rain and waste extracted of the tubs of relave. robert cisneros twitter shares 4 facebook shares 20 send for whatsapp 0 email 0 have past three years since that is arrested the engines in the mine molejón, located in the district of donoso, province of columbus. the that was the epicentre of the exports of gold panamanian and that reached the 200 million of dollars among 2011 and 2013, today is a spot solitary supervised for a handful of agents of security that are responsible of that the structure existing not be vandalizada. the panorama of the mine operated for petaquilla gold, subsidiary of the canadian petaquilla minerals since 1997, is uncertain and not is looms a solution in the short term. besides of the problems financial, the authorities investigate the possible handling of the actions of petaquilla thru of the fall house of values financial pacific. while the holder of ministry of commerce and industries (mici), august arosemena, ensures that the concession is canceled, petaquilla indicates that maintains negotiations with investors for take up the operation in the mine. arosemena said that the cut supreme of justice avalo the decision of ministry of cancel the concession because to incumplimientos committed for the company. to principles of 2015 the mici warned to petaquilla that had 180 days for solve its problems financial and activate the operation in molejón. compliment the term in july of that year, the mici issued the resolution of annulment of the concession. before the decision of mici, the company presented a protection of guarantees before the cut supreme of justice, resource that was accepted in first instance, but after the result was contrary to the mining. arosemena commented that the state will seek reactivate the operation in molejón, but indicated that any transaction must involve the payment of the passive salary and social that owed petaquilla. "the company still must make front to all the demands for wages backward that add more of 15 million of dollars and the not payment of quotas to the insurance social", said. exactly, the president of petaquilla, richard fifer, faces a process judicial for allegedly break with the transfer of the payments of quotas to the box of insurance social and that were descontadas to the workers. george obón, spokesman and managerial of petaquilla gold, expressed that not have been reported of the annulment of contract and notes that the company received the concession thru of a contract law, for the which the dissolution of same must become thru of other law. said that before the panorama current where the value of the ounce of gold in the market international and the price of fuel is keep stable, the company is negotiating with three groups for activate the operation in molejón to end of year. "the activity in the mine is arrested, but we we continue with the maintenance preventive in the installations for avoid its deterioration", commented. surveillance environmental a of the concerns of the groups environmental is that the stagnation in molejón cause a overflow of the tubs of relave where is deposited the waste that were mixed with cyanide and other chemical. yamil sánchez, director national of quality environmental of ministry of environment (miambiente), expressed that the work that is performed to the middle of year past for strengthen the slope that protects the tubs of relave endured the season rainy to final of 2016 that was more intense in the side caribbean. commented that inspectors of ministry made a visit each 15 days to the project for to verify that not there risk of overflow and added that the work must bear other year. thru of disappeared program of help national (bread), that was replaced for the direction of assistance social (das), miambiente legal the cleanliness of the tubs of relave and work of maintenance for prevent desbordamientos of water stored in molejón. obón explained that the work that were executed for the company bluefin seroca environmental for 1.7 million of dollars were unnecessary, already that the company had made works similar for a amount of 200 thousand dollars. sánchez responded that during the inspections regular that made the technical of miambiente not have observed greater movement of personal of petaquilla, to exception of the guards. viability estimates not official point that the deposit of molejón still has among 3 and 5 years of life useful for follow producing gold, however, is necessary do a recovery of the zone for determine the feasibility of reactivate the project. at present, the deposit main of molejón is a lake artificial product of the accumulation of water rain and of the waste that were extracted of the tubs of relave. for zorel moral, president of the camera mining of panama (camipa), the project still is viable because is in a zone with high concentration of minerals. indicates that the stagnation of the activity in molejón, besides of management administrative and financial that did the mining, was the result of a combination of factors that includes the little supervision for part of state and a deficient operation for draw the gold. "the direction national of resources minerals of mici not has the ability technique nor financial for monitor all the activity mining in the country", he demarcated. comments that in mining there something that is known as planning miner, that is a schedule that is supervised for the state for achieve a management efficient of the mine for avoid cases as the of petaquilla. in its opinion the that passed is that the company decided exploit with greater speed the section of deposit that had more potential for utilize the price high of value of the ounce of gold in the market, but when decided draw of other part of the mine, that required of more work, the price of metal had fallen, and then was more expensive draw a ounce of gold, versus the profit that receive for the same. the president of camipa indicates that the bank worldwide is prepared to advise to the state for find the better option for reactivate the operation in petaquilla. the guild had approach with the organism that has advised to other countries that have problems similar and have shown interest in provide its collaboration. the bank worldwide is responsible of do a recovery of all the assets and passive of project, besides of the analysis for detect other deposit with potential inside of the concession of petaquilla. moral added that the results would be delivered to the state, that would be the responsible of search a new operator and that of the funds that is obtain of the new concession is him pay to the bank worldwide for the advice brindada. this proposal was presented ago more of six months to the mici, but until the date, the government not has manifested its intentions of ask the collaboration to the bank worldwide.
Sometimes I am thoroughly f'n amazed in life.
I couldn't post it but go to LA prensa panama and search for petaquilla.
READ THE ARTICLE DATED TODAY.
They want to/trying to bring them back on line !!!!
Who knows whether it will ever happen but they say the mine has a few years of life in her.
They just need to keep the corrupt retards away from it !
Richard Fifer, former governor of Cocle, entered the courtroom of the accusatory penal system escorted by his team of lawyers to the hearing intermediate stage, for allegedly withholding quotas to the detriment of the Social Security Fund (CSS).
At 9:01 a.m. Judge Maria Isabel guarantees Pedreschi gave initiated the hearing. They said they were present: Fifer with its new legal defender Thomas Góndola; Anti-corruption prosecutor sixth, Aurelio Vásquez; and Humberto Ledezma, in legal representation of the CSS as a prosecutor in the process.
The judge asked the parties whether they had explored an alternate exit conflict settlement as envisaged by the Criminal Procedure Code.
The prosecutor told Vasquez that he was not opposed to an agreement with the defense, but said he had not been informed about it. The CSS representative said the same.
Meanwhile, the defense spoke of a rapprochement with CSS, but did not specify details. It called for a total annulment of the process.
reject invalid
Nacelle requested the annulment of the process based on a public document certifies that Fifer became president of Petaquilla Gold on September 2, 2014, the date on which the CSS certified that the company had a peace and safe current in payment of dues.
He argued that his client did not have the key to access the System Revenue and Economic Benefits of CSS (SIPE) in the period in which supposedly the facts alleged occurred. The SIPE is the system that allows you to upload the forms to the CSS.
According to the complaint shares from October to December 2013 they were retained; same period in 2014 and in January 2015 through companies and Panama Petaquilla Infrastructure Development (PDI).
Nacelle also claimed that the September 24, 2014 the company did not operate, so bad could generate dues.
The prosecutor Vasquez opposed the arguments of the defense, in the sense that the annulment can claim only when there is a helplessness of the accused and violated his constitutional rights.
The judge decreed guarantees at 10:12 a.m. a short break to sort the ideas and decide on the appeal of the defense.
Upon returning from recess the judge denied the appeal for annulment, claiming it did not meet the requirements dictated by Article 198 of the Criminal Procedure Code. To order the annulment should have violated any guarantee of the accused.
ask suspend process
The defense requested "the provisional suspension of the process" for six months for Fifer reach an agreement with the CSS on quota arrearages.
Nacelle invoked the Criminal Procedure Code which establishes the "suspension of the process subject to condition," arguing that his client had been informed by the CSS of a credit to her for $ 434 thousand in Petaquilla Gold and $ 467,000 in PDI.
He showed a certification of the executing judge Him Cocle Analida Torres, who reported on the balance in favor of companies for $ 901,000.
The defense said that based on this credit, Fifer deposited in a cashiers check, the September 7, 2016, the sum of $ 215,000 as part of the amount for payment to the debt.
However, prosecutors amounts of retained installments totaling $ 3 million 199 thousand for Petaquilla Gold and $ 3 million for 31,000 IDPs.
According to Gondola, his client met the standard: was repaying the damage and the offense with which he endilga, according to him, has a less than 36 months worth.
Both the prosecutor and the complainant of the CSS opposed the defense argument.
The tax Vasquez was direct: the suspension of the process does not apply because the crime of withholding quotas covers 42 months in prison, not 36. In addition, Fifer faces two separate processes: the Petaquilla Gold and PDI.
The complainant stated that payment did not constitute a payment arrangement itself. At that point the prosecutor said that the administrative process does not stop court case.
He added that the suspension of the process involved the cancellation of precautionary measures to the accused, which is currently barred from leaving the country, and recalled that the former governor had a history of flight, as I had to be captured in February in a foreign country ( Colombia) to be brought into the process.
Finally, the judge denied Pedreschi this second recourse to defend Fifer, because by that court the payment made to the CSS was not a reparations.
In addition, it coincided with the prosecutor as to the penalty prescribed for the offense he is charged to Fifer.
formulate charges
Before entering the reading of the indictment against Fifer prosecutor, the judge asked again if the parties had an agreement: there was no conflict resolution.
The Fifer tax charged to the crime of withholding quotas to the detriment of the CSS and asked for a sentence of 84 months in prison: 42 months for each one of the processes: Petaquilla Gold and PDI.
The prosecutor invoked Articles 43 and 80 of the Penal Code that criminalize withholding quotas as was established in the Organic Law of the CSS (Act 51 of 2006).
Vasquez fed them with management reports collection of CSS the total amounts that are alleged were retained.
Evidence and witnesses
The prosecution presented the judge more than 25 witnesses and other documentary evidence to support his accusation against Fifer.
The defense presented several objections to the evidence by the prosecution, but few were accepted.
Subsequently, the defense also presented more than 20 exhibits. Among the ones that were accepted figure CSS certification that Petaquilla Gold and PDI are a credit to your favor of $ 901 thousand in the CSS in dues.
A recess was declared at 4:19 p.m.
Set oral hearing
The Pedreschi judge, before entering this phase, asked again if the parties had reached an agreement. The answer was negative.
Immediately, she reads out the summons for trial and set a November 29, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. as the date and time of the hearing.
He asked the defense and the public prosecutor to withdraw the citation slips to locate witnesses who will carry the audience.
At a hearing intermediate phase lasted nine hours, the judge guarantees of Cocle, Maria Isabel Pedreschi, gave the order to open the trial against the former governor of Cocle Richard Fifer for November 29, 2016, for allegedly crime of withholding labor-management fees to the detriment of the Social Security Fund (CSS).
At the same hearing, the prosecutor sixth Anticorruption, Aurelio Vasquez, charged him Fifer charges and asked to be sentenced to 84 months (7 years) in prison.
CSS, represented by Humberto Ledezma, joined as a plaintiff to the prosecutor's indictment.
Fifer is accused of alleged withholding quotas through Petaquilla [$ 3.3 million] and Panama Infrastructure Development [$ 3.1 million].
See....deals can be made with the corrupt. Ok Fifer, let's get PTQ up and running !!!! I want my money back !!!!!!
The Social Security Fund (CSS) announced yesterday at a press conference that there is a payment arrangement with companies Petaquilla Gold, S.A., Panama and Infrastructure Development, S.A., whose president and legal representative is the entrepreneur Richard Fifer.
The Sixth Anticorruption Prosecutor investigates Fifer for allegedly withholding employers contribution, process that had been detained since last February at the headquarters of the National Police in the capital.
However, the judge Cocle Guarantee Albelis Herrera changed the preventive measure preventive detention and imposed a ban from leaving the country, hearing in Penonomé on Monday under the rules of adversarial criminal justice system.
The judge's decision was appealed by the prosecution and the appeal will be decided today, Thursday, in another hearing.
SETTLEMENT OF PAYMENT
Humberto Osorio, deputy director of Legal Counsel of the CSS, said that "there is no arrangement of any payment" with Fifer, and explained that to achieve such agreement the employer owes the institution must pay between 15% and 20 % of the total amount of debt, and is between 24 months and 48 months to honor the entire commitment.
The official recommended Fifer agree on a settlement of at least 20% of the debt.
Last week, Fifer published a notice in the media, in which he publicly asked the executing officer of Cocle, Analida Torres, and the CSS, determine "exactly the amount they owe their companies" to state institutions.
In turn, Maria Eduarda Cordoba, lawyer Fifer, endorsed the statement made by the Deputy Director of Legal Services of the CSS as they have not reached a settlement payment, but said this was not possible because the judge implementing the CSS "does not give us the final and correct figure."
Córdoba documents showed that the executive judge of the CSS in Cocle indicates, through the JEC-N-917-2016 report of August 11, 2016, the amount owed by Petaquilla Gold in the period October 2013 to December 2014 is $ 2 million 827 000 793; while the debt of Panama Infrastructure Development, S.A., for the period October 2013 to January 2015 is $ 2 million 623 thousand 671.
However, the defense Fifer said that these figures do not match the JEC-N-918-2016 report of August 11 this year, which indicated that the mining Petaquilla Gold due to the CSS $ 3 million 333 000 632 and Panama Infrastructure Development SA, $ 3 million 159 thousand 926.
GLOBAL DEBT
The Social Security Fund has reported that 600 thousand criminal cases on nonpayment of workers' employer fee by employers.
According to statistics reports CSS total arrears of employers to the CSS for nonpayment employment benefits to employees is estimated at $ 40 million.
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The Social Security Fund (CSS) warned that there is a payment arrangement with companies Petaquilla Gold, S.A. Panama and Infrastructure Development, S.A., whose president and legal representative is Richard Fifer.
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Fifer -detenido since February past- is being investigated by the employer fees retention workers. On Monday, Judge Herrera Albelis Fifer favored a change of injunction and granted barred from leaving the country. The action was appealed by the prosecutor Sixth Anticorruption, Aurelio Vasquez.
Herrera judge based his decision on the allegations of Thomas Góndola lawyer Fifer, who said his client is promoting a payment arrangement with the CSS.
Deputy Director of Legal Services of the CSS, Humberto Osorio said on Tuesday, August 23, at a press conference that respects the decision of the judge, "but does not share". He added that the CSS will appeal the injunction granted, since no records certifying that the companies represented by Fifer have made payment arrangements "established for these cases."
"It's the power of executing judge accept the payment arrangement and to date there is no such arrangement for any employer is required from 15% to 30% of the debt and given a period of 24 to 48 months to pay, but no of the two circumstances he has been "noted Osorio.
The official recommended Fifer agree a settlement of at least 20% of the debt.
Last week, Fifer published a notice in the media, which publicly asked the executing judge Cocle Analida Torres and CSS to determine "exactly the amount they owe their companies" to state institutions.
I love it when retards play dumb.
The former governor of the province of Cocle and president of companies Petaquilla Gold, S.A. and Panama Infrastructure Development, Richard Fifer, asked the Social Security Fund (CSS) the exact amount that both companies owed in respect of the workers' share employer, for which follows a judicial process that keeps him under preventive detention.
In a note sent to the executing judge CSS, Analida Torres Him, the former governor of Cocle asked to be informed about the total amount of debt in order to reach a payment agreement and submit it to the investigating judge .
Fifer remains detained since last February by orders of the prosecutor sixth Anticorruption Aurelio Vasquez, who followed a process for the alleged illegal detention of employers contribution through these companies.
In his note, Fifer says it was not until last June 27 when he was informed for the first time, what forms of payment of such debt would be, so it has decided to accept the payment proposal, but that financial institutions and banking will require the exact amount of debt to cash in financing a loan to pay this commitment.
Notes that "it is worrying that in the absence of the amount of the debt, we keep in custody for an offense because of it not warranted and that this situation is detrimental to the workers themselves who are not contributing and that it undermines the very legal safety of employees and the companies I represent. "
Meanwhile, the director of the CSS, Estivenson Giron, Fifer said yesterday that it has is to "pay" their debt. "I have understood that he knows what you owe, and our address Revenue has certified him his debt," he added.
According Giron, Fifer owes approximately $ 6 million.
Escorted by two agents of the Directorate of Judicial Investigation (DIJ) and carrying a black bag on his hands, covering his wives, entered yesterday the Court of Guarantees of Cocle, Richard Fifer, former governor of the province, to face the intermediate hearing for the alleged withholding of worker-employer contributions to the Social Security Fund (CSS) of companies Petaquilla Gold, for $ 3 million 199 thousand, and Panama Infrastructure Development (PDI), for $ 3 million 331 thousand.
By the Attorney General Anticorruption prosecutor sixth, Aurelio Vasquez, and a group of workers was mentioned companies.
At 9:12 am, the investigating judge, Albelys Herrera, opened the hearing and asked the parties to identify themselves: first did the prosecutor Vásquez, then the attorney CSS, Humberto Ledezma, and then Fifer, who he had no legal representative.
It was reported that Thomas Góndola, lead counsel for Fifer, had another hearing in the Family Court of Chiriqui, so could not attend. Carlos Augusto Herrera while the substitute lawyer, resigned as defense Fifer for late payment of their fees.
Despite not having a lawyer, Fifer requested the floor to speak at the hearing, but Herrera judge warned that automatically apply Article 25 of the Constitution, which states that no one is obliged to testify for or against of himself.
Fifer revealed that a week ago, without determining exact date, the CSS through the executing judge will bid a solution for late payment of worker-employer businesses quotas.
He said that an agreement was welcomed by the board of the CSS was established. Fifer asked the investigating judge within 30 days to complete the offer, since it is the time that will be awarded capital for the settlement of debt payment with CSS. The judge ordered a brief recess, and return, fixed 14 September 2016 as the new date for the interim hearing
Maria Eduarda Cordoba, legal representative of Petaquilla Gold, announced that the agreement is to cancel a payment of $ 1.3 million of the total amount owed to the CSS.
The representative of the CSS, Humberto Ledezma, confirmed that a "negotiation" with Fifer, but Liliana Ortega, a spokeswoman for Petaquilla workers and IDPs, said there that "seeing is believing".
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LTS....I thought there was a company assigned to pick up the ore in the piles that they stored ?
The intermediate hearing to be held on Monday July 11, 2016, Richard Fifer, entrepreneur and legal representative of Petaquilla Gold, was postponed until next August 4.
The rescheduling of the hearing date is given in the context of the resignation of the attorney Fifer and notification to the authorities, a new lawyer handling the case of the employer.
Fifer is summoned to the audiciencia due to the process followed by illegal withholding of dues Social Security Fund (CSS), in the amount of $ 3.1 million.
The information was confirmed by people close to the defense of the president of the mining.
Fifer remains detained in Panama City, but the hearing will be held in Penonomé, under the accusatory penal system (SPA).
In this case, the employer has repeatedly stated that it was not the legal representative of the mine in the period in which they stopped paying dues, August 2013 to September 2014; and then the company was in charge of Rodrigo Esquivel.
This media learned that the CSS agreed to review the last six forms of September 2014, attributed to the employer, and are subject to judicial investigation.
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DECISION. The full Supreme Court of Justice decided two complaints of unconstitutionality filed against Law February 9, 1987, for which the contract between the State and Petaquilla mining was approved. The accumulated lawsuits were filed by lawyers Serracín Susana and Juan Ramon Sevillano, who alleged that that contract violates several articles of the Constitution and the American Convention on Human Rights.
What were the arrangements with that other company to process the existing pile of gold? Isn't that property worth anything ? Ultimately, even if they sold it, it still wouldn't cover what they owe to all interested parties.now they can't even trade the pinks becaus the financials will never be completed.
I knew it was finished before, but this makes it done like dinner. That's all she wrote folks.
The Sixth Anticorruption Prosecutor filed with the Judicial Office of Cocle an indictment against the former governor of that province Richard Fifer, in the process related to the alleged withholding payment of dues Social Security Fund (CSS).
Sources confirmed that prosecutors in the indictment the prosecutor asked the court for a sentence of 84 months imprisonment for Fifer, for the alleged commission of the offense cited.
After this brief submitted to the court shall fix the date for holding the intermediate hearing, which is governed by the accusatory system.
In his indictment, the prosecutor asked Fifer's conviction for allegedly withholding payment of dues CSS of Panama Infrastructure Development companies ($ 3 million 331 thousand) and Petaquilla Gold ($ 3 million 199 thousand).
This medium made six calls and left messages on cell Marilyn Melgar, legal advocate Fifer, but did not respond.
Fifer is preventively detained since 27 February by order of the judge of guarantees of Cocle Yazmín Jaen, who welcomed a request from the Attorney Sixth Anticorruption it considered that the investigation does not have fixed in Panama residence, and never responded to the subpoenas that they were made during the process that began in January 2015.
Fifer was extradited from Colombia, where he was arrested following a request to Interpol capture by the Sixteenth Circuit Prosecutor's Office as part of an investigation for alleged fraud to the detriment of the Canadian company Gold Dragon Capital.
Esquivel, OF A WITNESS ACCUSED
In the process for allegedly withholding quotas CSS by businesses and Panama Petaquilla Infrastructure Development, the prosecution also investigated the exdirectivo Rodrigo Esquivel.
Esquivel managed Petaquilla Gold for five years until August 2014, coinciding with the end of the administration of Ricardo Martinelli. Fifer replaced in September of that same year.
On 20 November 2015 a hearing in which he was charged charges Esquivel was held, however, almost five months later became an important witness prosecutors in the process.
April 4 last, the investigating judge Sandra Castillo endorsed a "partnership" agreement between the prosecutor Aurelio Vásquez, and Esquivel's lawyer, Roberto Moreno.
The agreement excluded Esquivel as accused in the process.
"The defendant agrees to cooperate effectively to clarify the crime, providing relevant to discover the criminal trial involving the author information," said the agreement.
Other cases
The former governor of Cocle has other processes pending in the judicial system, which also relate to the alleged withholding quotas to the CSS.
This time it is a workers alleged involvement of the South Sea business listing for the alleged withholding of dues CSS for $ 20,000.
In this investigation no injunction against Fifer.
The investigation process is in charge of fiscal Cocle, Yoselín Macías.
In late February 2016, the investigating judge gave him three month extension to the Macías prosecutor to continue the investigation in the case. The deadline is nearing completion.
Golden Dragon Capital
On May 13, 2015, prosecutors charged him with charges Fifer and his partner Kenneth William Morgan, but although they were cited several times, never appeared. Therefore, the prosecutor in charge of that office, Kira Lizbeth Brokamp, ??ordered the arrest of both.
The process originated from a complaint filed lawyer Francisco Zappi, who said that both offered to representatives of the company Dragon Capital Management Gold mining concessions for a million dollars. However, after payment of the money it was discovered that such concessions were only requests for mining.
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So I haven't been able to find any more articles in regards to Dicks fate. It has a month since the last article posted about Fifer and his little side kick. At that time they were debating to use Fifers friend against him. Anyhow, just wondering if anyone heard anything.
Rodrigo Esquivel Klein and Richard Fifer Carles have maintained a close relationship, but now not even look at his face in the hearings held in the accusatory system Cocle, as part of the investigation into the alleged withholding of dues Box Social Security (CSS) by Petaquilla Gold.
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Judge accepts request guarantees accumulation of proceedings against Fifer and Esquivel
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On 20 November 2015 a hearing, in which he was charged was held Esquivel charges. Almost five months later, it is an important witness of Public Prosecutions. April 4 last, the investigating judge Sandra Castillo endorsed a "partnership" agreement between the sixth anti-corruption prosecutor, Aurelio Vasquez, and Esquivel's lawyer, Roberto Moreno.
Marilyn Melgar, Fifer lawyer protested. He argued that the prosecution never offered his client a similar treatment and objected that an agreement with Esquivel, according Melgar- only responsible for the alleged withholding quotas to be agreed CSS.
OLD DIFFERENCES
In 2005, Fifer, former governor of the province of Cocle, became president of Petaquilla Gold, a subsidiary of transnational Petaquilla Minerals. Since then he has served intermittently.
Under his management, he developed mining exploration of gold in the land of Columbus. His lawyer notes that when the company was ready to export, in 2009, the problems started with the newly installed government of Ricardo Martinelli.
In July of that year, Martinelli premiering the presidential band, gave the first "pressure", with the clear purpose of making the former governor cede the management of the company.
In a report of the Fifth Circuit Notary, dated September 15, 2009, the resignation of all directors of Petaquilla Gold certified. Later, in a meeting on November 13 that year, a new board was elected, with Rodrigo Esquivel Klein as president. a new resident agent, which went to the firm Grimaldo and Tejeira was also selected. Moreover, he entered
director Raul Ferrer, whom the defense of Fifer identified as "amanuensis" Martinelli, like Esquivel, who has denied these accusations with the main argument that militates in an opposition political party of former president.
Esquivel managed Petaquilla Gold for five years until August 2014, coinciding with the end of the Martinelli administration. Fifer replaced in September of that same year.
DEBTS AND ELECTIONS
In the twilight of presidency Martinelli, Petaquilla Gold opted to sell land a balloon Minera Panama, S.A. (MPSA).
It was a "second amendment" [Second Amendment] MPSA signed by the board in participating Ferrer and Esquivel.
The agreed sale price was $ 60 million. MPSA paid $ 50 million to Petaquilla Gold, leaving a balance of $ 10 million.
According to the documents of the time, it was agreed that part of the capital would be used as follows: $ 895,000 to cancel settlement of employees and another $ 194,000 to pay payrolls in March and April and the first game of the thirteenth month. Also they would cancel $ 476,000 in arrears to the CSS.
Fifer Esquivel accused of violating the agreement and use the money to pay off debts acquired millions with banks.
In the documents show that on that date, at least five bank accounts Petaquilla Gold, which Esquivel and other executives were signatories were overdrawn and closed.
Esquivel and Fifer acknowledges that he signed the agreement with MPSA, and received disbursements of the transaction later five months of the due date in July 2014.
"The delay of five months to receive the settlement funds, coupled with the suspension of gold production by the lack of liquidity meant that when funds are received, the amounts to be canceled were much higher than those established in the agreement" said Esquivel on a questionnaire sent La Prensa.
According to Esquivel, Fifer and his team negotiated those tables disbursement, including, among others, payments to pay the debt with the employer-employee quotas CSS.
With respect to bank accounts reflecting an overdraft, Esquivel admitted that Petaquilla Gold had loans to finance
working capital operation and equipment purchases. The company worked with several banks in the town and he explained credit committees of each were those who decided to grant or not the same.
"This man [Fifer] is a specialist in obscure and want to see as normal criminal acts that are specific to the operational activity of any company," he said.
DEMAND AND QUOTAS
In January 2015, given the non-payment of worker-employer contributions, Euribiades Vernaza, CSS lawyer, filed a complaint against Cocle Fifer -for their status as legal representative of Petaquilla Gold- because of the alleged retention worker-employer amounting to $ 3.2 million. quotas
Subsequently, the CSS filed a second complaint, this time against Panama Infrastructure Development, S.A., a company linked to Petaquilla Gold, for allegedly withholding another $ 3 million in fees.
In February of that year, the first judge of Cocle, Civil Branch, Omaira Quezada Macías declared bankrupt Petaquilla Gold.
The CSS claims payment of dues October, November, December 2014 and January 2015, a period in which allegedly illegally retained quotas. With the delay of more than three installments, the CSS can take legal action against the debtor, as the norm.
Fifer defense argued that the complaint is not justified, because his client did not have the key to access the System Revenue and Economic Benefits of CSS (SIPE) in the period in which supposedly the facts alleged occurred. The key, according to the lawyer Melgar- Esquivel had it not Fifer.
DEBT OF QUOTAS
Debt Petaquilla shares with CSS is longstanding. On September 13, 2013, Esquivel -a name of the mineral signed a payment arrangement through which promised to cancel outstanding dues from January to August 2013.
Before the breach of that agreement, the court executor of the CSS in Cocle ordered the April 10, 2014 seizure of the farm 20450 Petaquilla Gold, for $ 3.2 million.
On July 25, 2014, Petaquilla Gold completed the agreed payments in the agreement signed in September 2013. But by then,
and the corresponding fees owed October 2013 to June 2014.
There was a new payment agreement with CSS. Esquivel made a payment of $ 346,000 and agreed to pay $ 2.1 million in 24 monthly bills of $ 87,000 each.
Then the Executor Court lifted the embargo on the estate 20450. Fifer not understand why the CSS left without a good collateral to recover the accumulated debt of the company.
Fifer Esquivel accused of failing to honor the agreed payment before leaving the company in August 2014. "At the time that the agreement no longer meets, criminal and administrative responsibilities are generated," Esquivel said.
Processes to recover the debt of Petaquilla Gold and Infrastructure Development of Panama, S.A., were joined in a single file, which handles fiscal Vasquez.
About payment arrangements, he called the former director of the Social Insurance Fund Guillermo Sáez-Llorens, and did not respond. While the current director, Estivenson Giron said he was travel outside the country and could not answer questions about the alleged evasion of quotas.
FRAME AND ACCUSATIONS
Sources close to Fifer and his legal team argue that Esquivel allegedly used to achieve certain links payment arrangements with CSS.
They recalled that when Esquivel was deputy director of the CSS in the government of Mireya Moscoso (1999-2004), Giron, the current director, was his subordinate.
Francisco Batista a exauditor Petaquilla, now is the head of the CSS audit.
Maricruz Obaldía, coordinator of Health Facilities CSS was assistant Esquivel in the mining company. These sources close to Fifer not rule out that these links would favor Esquivel.
Esquivel replied that no friendship with Giron and Batista and worked in Petaquilla Gold Obaldía years before he directed the mining.
"I want Fifer seems unfair that involve diligent and dedicated, and they were forced to leave the company by the nonpayment of their salaries," he said.
Giron confirmed that meets Esquivel, but their friendship nor the officials mentioned influenced payment arrangements Petaquilla Gold.
With Esquivel as a witness, now the Sixth Anticorruption Prosecutor could ask arraignment hearing against the former governor of Cocle, next week.
(With information from Rosalia Simmons)
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I knew something like this would happen....so PTQ slept with and made a deal with the Devil, and now they are completely blaming them for the downfall of PTQ. That's awesome. Throw your friends underneath the bus when things don't work out. I wonder if I can get in on this suit !!!!!!
New multi-million dollar lawsuit against Panama
The Petaquilla mining and some who were executives believe that the Panamanian government, under President Martinelli, pressed them to take administrative actions
The Panamanian government will have to face a lawsuit for $ 2,300,000,000 by Petaquilla Gold, Petaquilla Minerals LTD, the Spanish company Iberia Resources Corporation, S.A. and as exaccionistas, Spanish citizens Fernando González de Canales and José María Blanc (who died in December 2015).
The complaint filed with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the World Bank based in Washington, United States.
A brief, which was seen La Estrella de Panama, drafted and signed in Madrid, Spain, on April 30, 2015, signed by Pascual Montañés Duato, José María Blanc, represented by Enrique Calamita, Fernando González de Canales and Luis lawyer Manuel Martinez, accounts before the President of the Republic of Panama, the present government, the actions of the government of Ricardo Martinelli, which leads to the claim.
Petaquilla CLAIM
Petaquilla Exejecutivos allege that the Government of Panama pressured
The applicants were hindered their work, also arbitrary and discriminatory measures were taken.
The actions were committed between 2009-2014.
According to the letter, the government of Martinelli, directly or indirectly through local and international economic and financial agents and members of his cabinet, caused damage to investors.
Therefore it responsible to the Republic of Panama as a contracting party to the Agreement on the Reciprocal Promotion of Investments between the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Panama, signed in November 1997 and approved by Law 43 of July 1, 1998, agreement also it was published in Spain, in the Official Gazette.
The information about this lawsuit details how between the period 2009-2014, the Martinelli government hindered by 'arbitrary and discriminatory measures' operation, side operation, expansion and sale of investments in which Spanish investors participated.
They note that in September 2009, Ricardo Quijano, as Minister of Commerce and Industry, 'Ricardo Martinelli representing Richard Fifer transmits the verbal order to give up Petaquilla'.
a chronology of events in Petaquilla Minerals and its subsidiaries and Panama Petaquilla Infrastructure Development (PDI) underpin the claim of Spanish investors is also mentioned.
Among other approaches background contained in the application, shareholders and investors in Spain report that was consummated in the second attempt by the government Martinelli 'the assault on the power of Petaquilla' that from that moment, ordered insider information the company and its powers through Rodrigo Esquivel, its chief executive.
The claim is for direct damage to the company in Panama and its shareholders.
The investigating judge, Sandra Castillo, rejected a practice of evidence requested by the defense of former Governor of Cocle, Richard Fifer, and endorsed a "partnership agreement" with Rodrigo Esquivel, both investigated for alleged illegal detention of employers contribution of the Social Security Fund (CSS) by Petaquilla Gold.
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Both decisions were formalized the afternoon of Monday, April 4, at the headquarters of the accusatory penal system (SPA) in Penonomé.
The day began with a request for Marilyn Melgar, lawyer Fifer, who requested was certified who had the key mining in the System of Income and Economic Benefits (SIPE) of CSS in October, November and December 2014 period in which evasion allegedly committed. Melgar also asked the same certification, but in relation to the return of Panama Infrastructure Development in the period between October 2014 and January 2015.
Sixth Anticorruption prosecutor, Aurelio Vasquez, said that in the period of the investigation, the evidence did not request Fifer whose practice now claims his defense. The investigation phase ended on 21 March. The judge accepted the request of Melgar.
Later, the prosecutor and Roberto Moreno, lawyer Esquivel, presented to the judge for a "partnership agreement", protected by Article 220, paragraph 2, of the Criminal Procedure Code. Based on this agreement, Esquivel becomes a witness of the prosecution, "for which no indictment is suspended until the commitment is fulfilled testifying," according to the document.
The agreement was endorsed by the CSS and opposition lawyer Fifer, who complained that the prosecution had not offered his client a similar treatment.
Esquivel was present at the hearing, accompanied by Domingo De Obaldia.
Fifer, who has been detained since 26 February, arrived guarded by police officers.
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But don't you honestly think that if the high rollers got burned, a class action would be well on its way by now.
Yeah....but it doesn't get back all my money that's in his front right pocket. I think they need to turn all those guys upside down and shake them until all the money is recovered.
The former executive of the mining Petaquilla Richard Fifer insists that the debt to the Social Security Fund (CSS) that maintains the institution was not their responsibility and that had to be canceled when Rodrigo Esquivel and Raul Ferrer were at the head of the company.
WERE THERE Complicity between AUTHORITIES AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMPANY?
I can not say; however, I submit to the judgment of the readers the following arguments: Searching the Internet I found this note: //www.panamaamerica.com.pa/content/sacan-juan-jovan%C3%A9-paro-en-el sure-social news that came out in 2003 where Rodrigo Esquivel takes provisional Deputy Director of the social Security Fund. This man worked for the company as a trusted person of Rodrigo Esquivel. Maricruz de Obaldia, right hand Esquivel, is national coordinator of health facilities SSC, the national leadership of Administrative Affairs, if we put together this puzzle we Esquivel from 2003 as deputy director in the institution. Two of the key chips Esquivel, his personal assistant Maricruz de Obaldia and comptroller Francisco Batista, are currently working in good jobs in the CSS and we have to put this puzzle that he put up as collateral for peace and except that he asked for the payment arrangement, a land company and embargo lifted the CSS (who requested the embargo, why he was released and could offer to be relieved?).
So clearly be seen that they could prepare the forms and he had to have gone into SIPE. This is a crime if we consider that Esquivel resigned in August and this time was no president of the company. The latter has caused two complaints lodged by us with the Public Ministry of Penonomé.
Blame ESQUIVEL DIRECTLY BY NO PAYMENT OF BENEFITS EMPLOYERS WORKERS IN THE CSS?
As former Assistant Director of the CSS and lawyer, you should know that ignorance of the law does not exempt him from blame. Failure payments occurred under his administration, the payment request was made to the president and representative of the company a key and a digital signature and other key responsible for HR.
What ARRIVAL TO THE COMPANY AS PRESIDENT, COULD NOT MAKE A DEAL WITH THE INSTITUTION?
I tried, but as shown by the evidence presented to court, all accounts were bankrupt and insolvent and bank accounts with a negative balance.
HOW THIS MONEY WAS CIRCULATED?
In the contract signed on May 8, 2014, with Minera Panama, it is designated accurately and details, check by check, how the money is distributed. Here I want to emphasize that the contract signed with Minera Panama states that Minera Panama 60 million, would pay the debt to the Social Security Fund, and the remaining workers. Definitely they made these payments only partially. The priority of Rodrigo Esquivel and Raul Ferrer, who controlled firms disbursement checks were banks that use them have relatives within them. When receiving this economic entry, they canceled the entire debt of these two banks from their families and left hanging workers, creditors and payments to the government sector.
Additionally we have submitted to the CSS legal grounds for them to have factual evidence that the 9.2 million remaining to give the Petaquilla group by Minera Panama, the debt is deducted CSS.
Through the Executor Judge CSS, we request that repossess Minera Panama for this amount of debt to them and to workers was canceled, but we are still waiting for news from them. Since this negotiation is not given, the company requested in the judiciary mediation between Minera Panama and Petaquilla group companies, this occurs in September 2015. There were two citations from which Minera Panama or presented nor apologized. Today we are still waiting for the CSS, which has the tools for the collection, it can run.
In the contract with Minera Panama, is Minera who controls all disbursements and debts to pay, consequently Minera Panama today has economic, legal and moral responsibility in meeting payments to the CSS and employees. Additionally, within the range of priorities, administration of Petaquilla under the direction of Esquivel and Ferrer did not have the good faith of cancelarles workers or the government. Further, I can say that the company requested by letter No. 0021 PTQ, dated June 15, 2015 mediation, but we still keep waiting for your answer.
I take it, SO THAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR PAYMENT TO WORKERS?
The latest steps taken by Esquivel and Raul were off debts with banks of family, tercerizar $ 7.8 million in tax credits and leave Unmanaged $ 9.2 million Minera Panama, as evidenced in the Court Sixth Circuit's Civil first Judicial Circuit of Panama.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WITH PACIFIC FINANCIAL ACCOUNT AND THAT ALLEGEDLY LINKED TO MARTINELLI?
I had no knowledge, rather than what came out in the media and instructed to Esquivel and Ferrer of the dangers that could be generated to process the Petaquilla insider group.
THERE ANOTHER CASE FOR WHICH YOU KEEP PROTECTIVE CUSTODY IS THE CASE GOLD DRAGON, WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT?
It is the result of the contract signed on May 8, 2014 Minera Panama-First Quantum under economic coercion to Petaquilla group. As important background I note that the president of Gold Dragon in 2008, accepts failure and requests reach an understanding, which was not achieved. Any failure to Gold Dragon believes it has with Petaquilla Minerals S.A. It is in its full right to settle with its new owner Minera Panama and its legal representative, which is why all parties were notified of the transaction. We wonder why I did it again the victim of a violation generated by an economic agreement and morally coerced upon us.
Finally, HOW YOU FEEL, THINK YOU WILL JUSTICE?
Clearly there have been two main actors, the government of Ricardo Martinelli and Trojan horses, most important in this interview the new White Shark Australia Firs Quantum-Minera Panama. I ask the Panamanian justice: he will hold our institutions face this trade war, which operates not only in Panama, but in the United States, Canada and Spain, among other countries? What is between the middle is the economic trajectory and participation of the national economy in the future of the coming decades world-scale project in the region of the central provinces. If he succeeds truth and justice; Petaquilla, and consequently the central provinces, will have a second opportunity for economic and social welfare.
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'From Financial Pacific he had no knowledge, but what came out in the media and instructed Ferrer Esquivel and the dangers of insider dealing group of Petaquilla'
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"Petaquilla financed the campaign and panameñismo CD"
Luis Ernesto Carles, was a partner of Rodrigo Esquivel, who Fifer identified as one of the amanueses Ricardo Martinelli used to manage the mining company
From left to right, Federico Barahona, Rodrigo Esquivel, Ricardo Martinelli, Lazaro Rodriguez, Juan Carlos Varela and Raul Ferrer. / Courtesy
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From left to right, Federico Barahona, Rodrigo Esquivel, Ricardo Martinelli, Lazaro Rodriguez, Juan Carlos Varela and Raul Ferrer.
Ricardo Fernandez
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The businessman Richard Fifer revealed to La Estrella de Panama that in addition to business and labor entanglements, problems with delay in payment of the return and the labor share employer of its employees, the mining company Petaquilla tried to penetrate into two political parties, financing their election campaigns. He even told a minister of the current government as a key player in an alternate plan to maintain their relationships with power. Then the second part of the interview he gave Fifer to this medium.
WHY TAKE A INMET (PARENT COMPANY) THE GAME?
To add a complication to this situation First Quantum Minerals LTD., A transnational with a gross domestic product greater than the entire Republic of Panama, launches a hostile takeover bid for the purchase of INMET against the then owner of Minera Panama, this It occurs in late November 2012. When meeting amid a threat of hostile takeover by First Quantum Minerals, Inmet proceeds immediately to yield to all legal issues by Petaquilla, who was paralyzed for more than five years.
DO YOU ACHIEVED AGREEMENT?
Within months an agreement worth $ 140 million under the negotiation of Rodrigo Esquivel and support the government of Ricardo Martinelli is achieved. On February 23, 2013, signing a trade agreement with Petaquilla ending these long disputes they were over five years. This achievement would last only two weeks, since First Quantum is successful in its hostile takeover of Inmet.
Did this affect relationships?
Begins a very volatile period against this new company Raul Ferrer and Rodrigo Esquivel, feel insecure and try to consolidate power with Martinelli, in the period from May to June 2013, is where the threats by First Quantum Minerals come Ltd. on May 23 of that year, signed with first Quantum Minerals the first amendment to the agreement previously signed on February 24 with Inmet. From that date on First Quantum Minerals Ltd it is systematically engaged in a commercial attack to bring the group of Petaquilla to insolvency achieved when Rodrigo Esquivel left the company in 2014 and consisting of the date on which suppliers submit a bankruptcy the August 28, 2014.
¿TURNED THE STRATEGY?
The result of this new strategy of the new owner of Minera Panama because President Martinelli meets on October 22 with them to urge them to buy Petaquilla Minerals and tells the director of First Quantum that this purchase is necessary to be released from problem. On October 26, Martin Rowley, director of First Quantum Minerals, shares with Richard Fifer Carles signed in the presence of Rodrigo Esquivel, the meeting on October 23 with President Martinelli, where calls for First Quantum Minerals buy Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. This obviously was a continuation of arbitrary state interference in the management of private enterprise and represents one of the arguments of the claims that have already brought internationally at the World Bank in the amount of $ 2,300,000,000.00 both in Washington DC, as in the federal courts of New York.
WHAT OTHER CHANGES ARE THERE?
First Quantum shown on this mandate Ricardo Martinelli an excellent opportunity to break all the commitments they had with Petaquilla group companies. Initiate a systematic process of leaving insolvent Petaquilla and on the other hand, isolate Rodrigo Esquivel and Raul Ferrer, because at this time Ricardo Martinelli had abandoned his commercial interest in Petaquilla and was focused on raising funds for re-election the ruling party in the elections on May 4, 2014 to be held in barely six months.
HOW SURGE FIRST QUANTUM?
This company First Quantum, a Canadian-Australian, born in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and South Africa, with its main operations in Zambia today. It is important to detail that this company does know how to handle yourself in a position of trade war, with extensive experience in handling in which Martinelli aspired to subdue them. The reality of what happened was that the process of destruction on Petaquilla proceeded systematically with the government 'under the direction of Raul Ferrer and Rodrigo Esquivel', wanting to be used as an economic tool for the re-election of his government and First Quantum, failing their contracts to accelerate insolvency. Arriving currently Ferrer and Raul Rodrigo Esquivel come into complete panic conceptualizing a new strategy of how to get out and leave Petaquilla because they say that has left Ricardo Martinelli.
This strategy is manifested by a campaign in the media to take responsibility to me for all the facts of the past five years, where they and Martinelli were those who ruled. On one occasion (July 2013) I made my remarks and ask for an explanation, the next day, at the Intercontinental Hotel, in the company of Rodrigo Esquivel and Raul Ferrer, he tells me an SPI (who accompanied Raul Ferrer), President Martinelli sent me to say she had been too long away from Panama and I had to be to fix the existing problem, this was completely contrary to the discourse of the last four previous years, when I said I had to be away from Panama, making investments in other countries.
The threat was told that failing to respect the clear message that renounce policy Petaquilla Minerals LTD. Raul Ferrer gives effect to the result of the instructions received from the President of the Republic threats. Parallel to this, Rodrigo Esquivel puts an alternate plan to work as a member of the National Board panameñismo with his law partner, Luis Ernesto Carles, to have an alternative plan if the election fails Martinelli. Using company resources aggravates the already insolvent Petaquilla, supporting the two campaigns, the Democratic Change and the panameñismo.
Failing in the elections of 2014, First Quantum, watching their window of opportunity closed, coerces under economic pressure and runs a leonine shareholders Petaquilla contract, May 8, 2014, four days after the electoral defeat. Simultaneously, Esquivel and Ferrer transferred during the 6 and 7 May 2014, 7.8 million dollars in tax credits to third, prompting a complaint by the company rests in the Criminal Court 10 of Panama. In late August 2014 resignation Esquivel, coinciding with a bankruptcy filed by one of the creditors on August 28, 2014.
Days later running in the office Esquivel and Raul in Panama, a robbery where only the most sensitive documents that spoke of the financial and operational work of the last five years were extracted, theft duly reported and registered with the DIJ.
This case Ferrer added that admitted me some time later in conversation held in New York, saying that he had been involved in it and in its possession a hard drive was with company information. Here begins a new phase in the struggle to sustain thirty years of work at the start of the new government.
CURRENTLY, THERE ARE SEVERAL CRIMINAL PROSECUTION AGAINST ONE OF HER CASE IS SOCIAL SECURITY FOR BREACH OF PAYMENTS OF CONTRIBUTIONS OBRERO EMPLOYERS detriment of 600 WORKERS IN THE COMPANY. WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT IT?
How good that we fell in this part !. In my defense I will say that these criminal actions were filed against the legal representative of the company, which at this moment I am, but not against me, as a person. And made it clear that it was Rodrigo Esquivel who served as president and legal representative of the company five years of the Martinelli. As proof I attached reports of the Public Registry records, documents that are public and where the names of these gentlemen as president and legal representative of the company stand out.
During these five years, is Rodrigo Esquivel who as manager and responsible for the company stops paying dues to Social Security. Esquivel who is twice in his five-year presidency makes two payment arrangements with the institution failing in both agreements.
On several occasions, the defense Esquivel said he left the company in peace and safety. That is false, left her with a million-dollar debt and a payment arrangement that is different and not the same.
This money could have paid off with the money that could have been obtained from the sale of the 7.8 million tax credits. On this point, I mean that Raul Ferrer testified before me that this money was delivered within the team members Ricardo Martinelli, money the company had intended for cancellation of employee benefits and Social Security, and now rests company a complaint against Rodrigo Esquivel and Raul Ferrer, in the Tenth Court of Criminal.
Consideration during reconstruction, because previously we had no knowledge of the events for lack of legal access, the seats of the Public Registry and Documents Social Security we realize that stood as a guarantee of payment arrangement property of Petaquilla, valued at three million dollars. This guarantee was raised by the CSS in the final settlement payment made by Rodrigo Esquivel after his departure as president and legal representative of the company, with the intention to achieve peace and safe to let him make the business transaction with Minera Panama, company that owes the Petaquilla group 9.2 billion, as stated by one of its directors under oath, in a preliminary exhibitoria diligence in the Sixth Court of Civil Circuit of the First Judicial Circuit of Panama, and we have his testimony.
We wonder why the CSS has not required the guarantee of Minera Panama returned or payment thereof, given the failure to pay promised by them in the contract.
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'Using company resources, aggravates the already insolvent Petaquilla, supporting the two campaigns, the Democratic Change and panameñismo'
RICHARD FIFER
PETAQUILLA
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'Parallel to this, Rodrigo Esquivel puts an alternate plan to work as a member of the National Board panameñismo with his law partner, Luis Ernesto Carles'
RICHARD FIFER
PETAQUILLA
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DO NOT MISS TOMORROW: FIFER GIVES HIS VERSION TANGLE IN THE PAYMENT OF FEES OF CSS
Martinelli has been embroiled in financial scandals and eventually was stated that the then President BECAME SHAREHOLDER OF COMPANIES AND SUBSIDIARIES PETAQUILLA. WHAT TO DO HIS ADMINISTRATION HAD WITH THIS?
The personal involvement of Ricardo Martinelli has ruined Petaquilla and its subsidiaries. So far today that the national authorities allowed it, Petaquilla was an operating company, with a debt of $ 6 million, income exceeded $ 60 million and generated a profit that exceeded $ 18 million. This is stated in the affidavit of fiscal 2009, which ends in April 2010, a period in which I leave the post of president of the company. President Martinelli takes possession through their clerks on 1 July 2009. In September of that same year (two months after his inauguration) Ricardo Quijano, (then Minister of Commerce), on behalf of President Martinelli, I verbally requested the resignation as president and legal representative of the company Petaquilla Minerals LTD (Canada-based mother company) and Petaquilla Gold SA, a subsidiary based in Panama. The reasons were clear, he needed to place their chips within the company.
HOW YOU ANSWERED AT THAT TIME A Ricardo Quijano?
I replied that this was not my decision, it had to consult. On 15 September 2009, under pressure from the Government, he resigned as chairman of the Board of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd, and in November of that year resigned as President of Petaquilla Gold SA
Who were the members of these boards? WHAT TO POSITION assumed that specific situation?
The waiver decision was consulted with members. At that moment there was complete renovation of the directive as a result of excessive pressures caused by the threats of Ricardo Martinelli and his henchmen. All supported the instructions of President Martinelli, in the sense that I replaced in the presidency with Rodrigo Esquivel and include Raul Ferrer as director. The latter, presidential adviser, takes office on October 6, 2009 and jointly and exclusively with President Esquivel, managed the company for the next five years, until September 2014, as it can prove the accounts of the company in the different banks in listed as being authorized these two gentlemen together with the aforementioned directors were part of the conspiracy signatures.
DOES evidence to prove it?
At this time the anti-corruption prosecutor accepted as evidence for the case that links me to the demand of the Social Security Fund bank accounts of that period. All this on the record. Seven weeks later, the shareholders, financiers and banks, demand again my refund to the direction of the company, leaving as chairman of the board of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd, but not of Petaquilla Gold SA, which is the management company principal with its subsidiary PDI.
Are there any documents, letters, e SHAREHOLDERS ON THIS?
Yes, there are in our archives in Canada and Panama, and can be claimed by EEW by the prosecutors in charge of the dossier.
HOW they DO pressured to step down?
Who granted the business license production begins the mining marketing is the government. And they pressed me saying not to give up, not give authorization or license. You see, it was I who gave face to investors for more than twenty years to invest in the project, could not tell them not to want to leave a job, they are going to be affected in their investments. His confidence was not to be disappointed by who since 1990 had been the pioneer of our mining industry, which years later would make our country a Banana Republic to a Golden Republic. It was why we chose not to be an obstacle and resign. On January 10, 2010 we received from the hands of the Panamanian government, through the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the letter of formal authorization for the start of commercial exploitation. To reenter the board of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd, as I said, again comes the pressure. As a requirement of the Government to license commercial production in early 2010, it is again required my resignation. This requirement of President Martinelli comes through Raul Ferrer, who also said it was necessary that Richard Fifer retire to do business in Spain and not in Panama. For more than five years, his henchmen, with instructions Martinelli, represented the company, signed checks and made appointments, violating all norms of corporate governance; until September 30, 2014, when I return to take possession of the board of Petaquilla Gold, a product of the abandonment of Rodrigo Esquivel the post of President of Petaquilla Gold SA, to be facing imminent bankruptcy, demand one of creditors. It is at that time that I take the responsibility of the presidency to safeguard the assets of the company.
Can you explain?
Well, it is public knowledge, as it was in all the media that one of our creditors filed a bankruptcy which was admitted on August 28, 2014. It is clear that from January 2010 until the end of August 2014, Petaquilla Gold SA and P.D.I. (Panama Infrastructure Development) were represented by Rodrigo Esquivel and Raul Ferrer, the president and legal representative and director of the board, respectively. So it is in the books of the Public Registry of Panama and the reports of banks show that I had not even signed in the accounts of banks since in all national and international accounts, who signed were Rodrigo Esquivel and Raul Ferrer . I spent outside the country and it shows my passport with stamps constant output and input the country and presented as evidence in various legal cases.
DO YOU HAVE YOUR TASTE LIKE statement?
I have in my possession email exchanges, which Mr. Ferrer makes me all the instructions detailed in this interview today and that once introduce as evidence in cases that are recognized me.
WOULD YOU TO YOU FOR involved decisions made in companies?
No. During this time the services of contractors and builders were hired and can be seen clearly in our reports that expenses were increased particularly through service contracts including hours of machinery, worked out of time, plus time on unjustified. He handled more a political rather than business administration. The situation was the expression of the pressure of multinational powers, supported by the Panamanian government against entrepreneurs and domestic investors. To make it clear who was boss in the eyes of our neighboring company Minera Panama, August 21, 2012, Jochen Tilk, CEO worldwide (CEO) of INMET and 80% of Minera Panama and Steve Astritis, general counsel owner also INMET, with the president of Minera Panama, Steve Botts, cited Raul Ferrer breakfast alone and not to any other manager or director. The meeting focused on claim Ferrer absurd actions taken in the direction of the company product of the pressures exerted by the Martinelli government, forcing it to cooperate on material issues, preventing the construction of the proposed 6 billion dollars. There were, in addition, legal issues of law by Petaquilla Minerals that prevented the construction of the Cobre Panama project. A few weeks of this action, September 5, 2012, a hostile takeover of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd. President Martinelli had for more than a year ago the position that Jochen Tilk should be removed from office in INMET starts. This intervention resulted in October 2012 by Ferrer and Raul Rodrigo Esquivel, together with Ricardo Martinelli, demanded that the sale price had to be higher. This meeting is a reality and confirms who or who really was or were the or those with the power company. Between October 29 and November 5 the same year, Raul Ferrer, on behalf of Ricardo Martinelli, he informed Jochen Tilk that all business processes INMET be blocked if let loose the hostile takeover or increased the offer price. On Sunday November 4, 2012, Rodrigo Esquivel and Raul Ferrer Jochen Tilk contacted by phone and canceled all negotiations that had made Joao Manuel (CEO of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd., and corporately, the highest officer with operational responsibility for the company), with INMET, and even threatened with dismissal effective in the coming days. It is here when Raul Ferrer tour the instruction that "under no circumstances may receive less than $ 300 million, pulling down the offer negotiated by the CEO of $ 210 million." On November 5 he expired time of the offer by Inmet to Petaquilla. The offer of $ 210 million for the purchase of Petaquilla has been terminated. Again, all this confirms who or who were the ones who ran the company.
Judge guarantees of Cocle, Jasmine Jaen, agreed to the request for consolidation processes presented by the prosecutor sixth Anticorruption, Aurelio Vásquez, in the case that followed Richard Fifer Carles and Rodrigo Esquivel Klein for the alleged commission of the offense improperly withholding dues Social Security Fund (CSS).
From yesterday, the sixth anti-corruption prosecutor, which now will be in charge of the investigation have 10 working days to support its request in this process and ask for dismissal or seek indictment of the investigation.
Moreover, the same term of the parties, prosecution and defense, to opt for an alternative method of conflict resolution.
The Criminal Procedure Code establishes the figure of conciliation and mediation. For example, Article 206 states that in crimes that support withdrawal, as is the avoidance of quotas or wrongful retention, if the parties reach an agreement that does not affect the state and this is true "criminal action is extinguished and the agreement will have res judicata effect. "
The prosecutor instructed Vasquez one of the reasons that follow him Fifer and Esquivel for allegedly not paying $ 3.1 million in dues CSS workers Petaquilla Gold.
For this case, Jaen judge ordered the provisional detention of Fifer on 26 February.
The other process ahead the Attorney First Anticorruption and relates to the alleged withholding quotas to CSS to company employees Panama Infrastructure Development for $ 3 million 331 thousand.
Roberto Moreno, attorney for the defense of the accused Rodrigo Esquivel said to agree with the request made by the prosecutor, as it is favorable to his client since he asks and requires soon resolve their situation to clear his name.
While attorney Richard Fifer, Marilyn Melgar, opposed the backlog of cases, arguing that the measure was limited to the right to defend his client and the ability to present evidence would violate individually and not be accumulated.
He said if his client would like to request a deposit, the amount would be higher if asked to review the injunction, by increasing it, nor favor.
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The sixth anti-corruption prosecutor requested Cocle Judge Yazmin Jaén to combine the outstanding cases against former provincial governor Richard Fifer into a single matter.
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Prosecutor Aurelio Vásquez is handling the case against Fifer for allegedly not paying $3.1 million in fees to Social Security on behalf of the workers of mining company Petaquilla Gold.
Fifer was jailed in this case on Feb. 26.
He also faces charges being pursued by Prosecutor Tania Sterling related to the failure to make Social Security contributions on behalf of workers of Panamá Desarrollo de Infraestructura. Those payments total $3.3 million.
Fifer also faces fraud charges.
A hearing to decide on the request of Vasquez will be held Friday in Penonomé.
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The Sixteenth Prosecutor in charge of Kira Brokamp a trial against businessman Richard Fifer and Kenneth Morgan who acted as directors of Petaquilla Minerals, SA, and now are accused of crime against economic wealth to the detriment of Gold Dragon Capital Managment, Ltd.
Gold Dragon says Petaquilla Minerals, cheated him by selling some metal exploration concessions he never had in their power.
According to the complainant, Fifer through the company 'tricked' because it offered a business that could not be realized, which was impossible. For this reason, Fifer would have cheated and taken away 'almost' $ 1 million.
The contract was that in exchange for Gold Dragon invest hundred thousand Canadian dollars for exploration work and make sure that owned 2% of the shares of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd, parent company of Petaquilla Minerals, S, A, were issued in circulation, Gold Dragon had the option of receiving in return concessions Belencillo River zone 1 and 2, and Rio Petaquilla concessions.
However, Gold Dragon says he was duped because the signing of the contract, Petaquilla Mineral represented that had concessions for mining exploaración in their hands and they were able to transfer no later than 120 days action has been executed, the date was on May 6, 2006.
FINANCIAL RESEARCH
According to the summary of the prosecution, the ruler of the mining sector by the Panamanian government, the Department of Mineral Resources, Ministry of Commerce and Industry (Mici), a note certified that Petaquilla Minerals maintained at that address demand for exploration concession Belencillo for Rio and Rio Petaquilla.
The request was submitted by Adrian Resources, now Petaquilla, on December 22, 2003 and was declared eligible for exploration of metallic minerals, however, it has not been granted concession to the request.
Therefore, he added Mici, the company can not transfer or perform other actions on concessions before being approved or recognized by the State, since for this must have a concession contract and Petaquilla Minerals, does not have any operating permit or exploration in these areas.
CONTRACT
The version of the complainant, Gold Dragon, refers to 7 May 2005. John Cook president of Gold Dragon with Petaquilla Minerals signed an option contract trading on the rights of several concessions.
Depending on the contract, Petaquilla Minerals, was forced to sell Gold Dragos two polygons of land identified as Zone 1 and 2 by 68% in the Belencillo and Petaquilla Rivers.
In the contract, Petaquilla claimed to be the legal owner and beneficiary of both areas.
Under these conditions, the parties agreed that Gold Dragon CANADIAN deliver 1,125,400 of dollars, against a 2% of the shares of Petaquilla Minerals.
The term of the contract within which Gold Dragon had an option to exercise the option to purchase the rights enunciated ran until May 7, 2006, as stipulated in the contract.
In the document between the parties, the 'optionee' or Petaquilla Minerals; ensures that concessions are free of encumbrances and restrictions of all kinds and are peace and safe with the government and can be transferred.
In the agreement, Petaquilla Minerals Gold Dragon also offered the option of processing the ore material.
According to the complainant, Petaquilla must deliver within 60 days, the title of concessions or 100% of the shares of a Panamanian company that has the concession.
The day May 18, 2005, Petaquilla Minerals made public the agreement with Gold Dragon.
DECEPTION
The shareholders of the company learned through a statement that the company had granted to Gold Dragon an option to buy its interest in the concession of Rio Belencillo and Rio Petaquilla by more than one million Canadian dollars, payable in shares of capital Gold Dragon.
To activate the option Gold Dragon must demonstrate ownership of a minimum of $ 1,025,000 shares of Petaquilla Minerals Ltd., within 120 days from the execution of the option agreement. After activating the option, Gold Dragon, noted the contract, has the irrevocable right and option to purchase concessions until May 7, 2006.
On October 5, 2007, Richard Fifer, president and legal representative of Petaquilla Minerals forwarded, as read on the fiscal side, a note to Gold Dragon in which he mentions that the payment of $ 100,000 on expense account exploration, not made in accordance with the agreed terms.
Therefore, the agreement between the parties has not been honored by Gold Dragon also indicated that involuntarily had misinformed Gold Dragon and the public.
COMPLAINT
The fact motivated lawyer Gold Dragon and Fifer protest to the position taken by the mining. This corrected his posture and approached both Mineral Resources in the Ministry of Commerce where the agreement made between the two parties were notified and requested once Mici the transfer of concessions to meet Gold Dragon.
However, according to the complainant, this date Petaquilla Minerals has failed to obtain the concessions offered in option despite having said he possessed the same in due form.
The complainant says Fifer cheated because he offered an impossible business for nonexistent and therefore fraudulent because he 'removed' almost $ 1 million.
The prosecution turned multiple ballots Fifer and Morgan summons to surrender their defense, but without success. Cg court granted a term of four months from the prosecution to conclude the investigation and at this time failed to get the version of the accused.
Despite that, it appears in the file Luis Acevedo lawyer as legal representative of Fifer, who also filed a motion for dismissal.
The Sixteenth prosecutor issued fiscally, however, to appeal to trial Fifer and Morgan for committing the offense against the administration of justice (evasion), to the detriment of Gold Dragon.
The prosecutor Kira Brokamp signed the view, apparently unaware of the error.
Richard Fifer remains provisionally detained at the Directorate of Judicial Investigation after the prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for the International Police. Fifer was arrested on 25 February, two months after launching the alert. It is judged in the province of Cocle on the standards set by the accusatory penal system (SPA), in force in Cocle.
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CHRONOLOGY OF FACT
The complainant accuses Richard Fifer of fraud 'almost $ 1 million
DICEMBRE 2003
Petaquilla is declared eligible for exploration of metallic minerals.
MAY 2005
Golden Dragon signs purchase agreement with Petaquilla.
MAY 2006
Golden Dragon tried to enforce the contract.
FEBRUARY 2016
Fifer arrest in Colombia.
Well...you know what they say......when you get into trouble, eat the cheese and rat out the other guy to save your soul !
The legal defense of businessman and former governor of Cocle Richard Fifer tries to give a twist to trial for alleged withholding of workers' dues employers of the Social Security Fund (CSS) and questioned by whichhe [Fifer] is the only person arrested in the case.
In the two hearings in the Court of Appeals in Cocle, Marilyn Melgar, lawyer Fifer, has made the question publicly: "Why Fifer is the only detainee if there is another person who was the legal representative of Petaquilla Gold and has no injunction? ".
Melgar mentioned the name of Rodrigo Esquivel Klein, who, she said, "had complete control of Petaquilla Gold and was the one who was withholding quotas".
Fifer and Esquivel are investigated in the process being conducted by the First Anticorruption Prosecutor for allegedly withholding quotas of CSS, for $ 3.3 million through the Infrastructure Development Company Panama, S.A., a subsidiary of Petaquilla Gold.
The prosecutor asked Tania Sterling far country Esquivel prison for this case, but the judge was not granted the guarantees on the grounds that cooperated in the process. In addition, the CSS not quarreled.
Roberto Moreno Esquivel defense lawyer denied that his client has withheld dues. He noted that his client has no injunction in the process, because from the beginning he appeared voluntarily to the prosecution and explained that made a payment arrangement with the CSS before leaving the position in the company.
Despite these signs of Moreno, the defense will insist Fifer point the questions about the possible involvement of Esquivel in retaining quotas CSS.
And it is that both Fifer and Esquivel also are investigated in the Sixth Anticorruption Prosecutor in another process also alleged withholding of dues, estimated at $ 3 million.
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The Court of Final Appeal of Cocle refused an appeal by the defense businessman and former governor of that province Richard Fifer, which sought to annul this preventive detention, ordered by the judge of guarantees Yazmín Jaén on 27 February.
The hearing related to the investigation being conducted by the Attorney Sixth Anti-Corruption for allegedly withholding employers contribution of the Social Security Fund (CSS) by Petaquilla Gold, which is listed as legal representative Fifer. What allegedly failed to pay totaled $ 3.1 million.
They formed the tribunal judges Adilio Gonzalez, Oscar Carrasquilla and Gustavo De Gracia, the latter as president.
In its arguments, the lawyer Fifer, Marilyn Melgar, questioned the arrest of his client with the argument that this took over Petaquilla Gold in September 2014 and the alleged withholding quotas occurred in the period between October 2013 and September 2014.
"In any case, should it speak of withholding quotas from the period when my client be welcomed legal representative of that company," he claimed.
Melgar also objected to the fact that the judge of guarantees decreed the preventive detention of his client with the allegation that disregarded a complaint filed against him in January last year, especially because, he said, Fifer was unaware of that action legal.
Counsel for the employer also rejected the argument of the judge regarding the alleged risk of leakage of his client, because, as he said, this was out of the country on business and I came back voluntarily to Panama when the Colombian authorities held him.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor sixth Anticorruption, Aurelio Vasquez said that if the arguments of the defense had Fifer viability, the judge had denied the request guarantees detention.
He said that one can not say that Fifer did not know the process that followed him after being sued by the CSS on January 5, 2015.
He explained that on January 22 of that year arrived at his office a document which stated that Fifer gave power of attorney to exercise its defense, so that "he knew the process."
He explained that on several occasions tried to notify the employer at his home in La Pintada, Cocle, but "he was never located."
He added that during those days he consulted his lawyer about the whereabouts of the former governor, but this disown said.
He also sustained that just yesterday, Wednesday March 2, 2016, Fifer had booked a plane ticket to Panama Washington, United States route. And then he intended to travel to a European country.
"I do not know why [the defense] says that there was no risk of flight," he rebutted.
The prosecutor said the measure requested by the prosecution and ordered by the judge "is to keep the radius of the process to the person under investigation (...)".
During the hearing, the judges declared a recess between 11:00 am and 1:40 pm Then, to resume the process, the judge De Gracia, who presided over the ceremony, concluded that "the behavior of the accused is consistent with the provisions by the prosecution and the arrest warrant of the investigating judge. "
He explained that the court's decision took into consideration the fact that the investigation sought to travel to the United States, coupled with having American and Panamanian passport.
Finally, the court concluded that the employer has no intention of remaining in Panama.
FIFER ASKED TO SPEAK
Before starting the period of allegations, Fifer defense asked the court to allow his client will say a few words. He consulted the prosecutor Vasquez and CSS representative, Humberto Ledezma, but they did not accept the argument that only the audience attending the appeal to the order of detention.
Five minutes later, the court rejected outright as requested by the miner.
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