FORMER FUGITIVE Mayer Mizrachi  arrived at the Pubic Ministry on Monday September 19 to face interrogation in the first of two cases against him.

He was accompanied by his lawyer, former Panama Attorney General Ana Belfon, who was appointed by ex-president Ricardo Martinelli, brother-in law of Mizrachi’s father Aaron.

Mizrachi who has a record of flaunting his image and brushes with the law on social media was wearing a smirk, but not the Criptex sweat shirt  that has been exhibited on  some of his Twitter messages.

He is  currently under investigation for  the commission of crimes against public administration to the detriment of the Government Innovation Authority  (AIG) and  was questioned by the Seventh Anticorruption Prosecutor.

Mizrachi has been accused of laundering the money paid to him by the government.

Mizrachi is back in Panama after being expelled from Colombia following failed attempts to get political asylum.

He had been held there since December 2015.

He is  barred from leaving the country after bail was set at $100,000 by the Second Superior Court.
An internal AIG audit revealed that Mizrachi’s  Innovative Venture company did not comply with establishing the the creation and integration of a single, private network for the security agencies: National Police, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of the Presidency and the  Public Ministry.

The contract  was to connect  100 users in the entities to the system.

Mizrachi left the country before the job was done and was arrested on an Interpol waaant in Colombia.
There is an Interpol Red Alert for his father, wanted on other charges.

Meanwhile, Mizrachi junior continues to smile for the cameras.