DEPUTY Pedro Miguel Gonzalez, who acts as prosecutor in the National Assembly investigation of suspended Supreme Court Judge Alejandro Moncada has seized more bank accounts linked to the judge who has been under house arrest since October.
In the control hearing held before the Subcommittee of Guarantees on Friday, January 30 Gonzalez said that these are two bank accounts for half a million dollars in the bank Bac, on behalf of Omega Engineering and and PR Solutions, SA
Omega Engineering is according Gonzalez "the company that handled the most important project contracted by the judiciary".
To date, Gonzalez has seized at least 14 accounts totaling $4.6 million linked to Moncada Luna. a man who on entering office claimed his sole possessions were a pickup truck and a Rolex watch.
González said that, in April 2013, when Moncada Luna was president of the Supreme Court (CSJ) - Omega Engineering received an advance for the construction of a judicial building in La Chorrera.
He explained that the amounts, for purposes of this investigation, "are not important, the transfers that were made later are the ones that have to be explained".
He said that the research process is nearing completion, and recalled that it has a February 20 deadline.
"And I will eventually ask the committee to make the pertinent accusation"
Ramiro Jarvis, lawyer for Moncada Luna, denied that the accounts seized by González are related to his client.
"Some people have said they are owners of these accounts. It is affecting the reputation of people who have nothing to do with this process, "he said.
The chairman of the Subcommittee on Guarantees, Deputy. Kathleen Levy, asked Jarvis to stick to defending his client and to refrain from intervening on behalf of contractor companies of the CSJ.