FBI fingers Martinelli relative in bribery scandal

RICARDO MARTINELLI’S  brother in law Aaron Mizrachi, is considered by an FBI  investigation to be a key figure in the Social Security (CSS) bribery scandal,

The case involves bribes allegedly paid by the German company SAP to Panama officials in exchange for a lucrative contract from the CSS.

The Mizrachi king pin role  is according to an affidavit given by FBI agent Stuart Andrew Robinson to the sixth anti-corruption prosecutor investigating the case.

Robinson's statement revealed that former SAP official Vicente Garcia dealt with former National Innovation Authority Director Eduardo Jaén and businessmen Aaron Mizrachi and Carlos Bissott,, to arrange for the payment of the bribes. Bissott has since died.

The agent reported that Garcia confessed that he saw a blank contract with instructions on how to send bank transfers to accounts of Mizrachi in the British Virgin Islands.

Jail term
Garcia was sentenced in California,  to 22 months in prison for paying the bribes. The sentence was handed down based on the results of the FBI investigation.

Mizrachi fled the country on Martinelli’s private jet and is the subject of a red alert by Interpol.

Jaén is in custody and has confessed to  investigators that he accepted payments from SAP officials.

Other high ranking CSS officials are also being investigated, including the former director Guillermo   Saez Llorens, who, while in office had Hospital City named after Martinelli, a move