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Ex-Panama president now mingles behind bars in Miami

Monday, July 24, 2017


Ricardo Martinelli, the former president of Panama, behind bars in a Miami detention center while awaiting his extradition hearing is no longer in a solitary cell without access to to the outside world according to his spokesman.

Eduardo Camacho told TVN that the man who days ago offered to pay bail of $20, million asked to be allowed to mix with other detainees in the Federal jail where he has been

Since June 12, when he was arrested in Coral Gables, after the Panama Supreme Court requested his extradition to face the criminal charges of wiretapping political opponents, journalists and businessmen.

Source: Newsroom Panama