The Panama Metropolis Authorities (Reuters) -Panama stated Monday that she had prolonged her project for protected approval for 3 days for her former President Ricardo Martinelli to journey to Nicaragua, the place she obtained asylum.
Martinelli, who was sentenced to greater than a decade in jail in Panama for cash laundering, has been residing within the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama Metropolis since February final 12 months, after the Panama Supreme Courtroom confirmed its sentence.
Panama had authorized the protected passage for Martinelli final week, however the course of reached an impediment when the nation’s judicial department requested that an Interpol Purple discover be requested towards the previous president, a request that the Panama Police rejected.
In a shared assertion on native tv on Monday, the Authorities of Nicaragua demanded that Panama present readability on the topic and stated that the request for pink notification amounted to an ambush.
(Elida Moreno report; Brendan O’Boyle version)