The Court of Appeal Adversarial Criminal Justice System Cocle confirmed the afternoon of Wednesday the decision of a court guarantees that ordered the arrest of businessman Richard Fifer Carles, on February 27, after imputing charges for alleged withholding of just over $ 6 million employers in labor shares of Petaquilla Gold and PDI societies.
Fifer remain in a holding cell in Penonomé until tomorrow, when the second hearing of withholding quotas will be made, this time by the company PDI.
Aurelio Vasquez, Sixth Anticorruption prosecutor said the court's decision to confirm the emdida was based on the grounds of his office "about the possibility of neglect of the process by the accused". Fifer had run since late 2014.
Meanwhile, the defense attorney Fifer, Marilin Anayansi Melgar, said he hoped that the Cocle mining entrepreneur is considered a different injunction on the grounds that during the period occurred unpaid installments (September 2014 to December 2014) the employer was not in charge of mining.
"Hopefully there is a change" replied the lawyer.
Sources close to Fifer say that is willing to reach a settlement, in exchange is also included in the process Rodrigo Esquivel, whom he passing on the responsibility of paying the installments that never came to the Social Security Fund.
