The Blue Apple trial for alleged corruption and laundering of some 78 million public dollars was scheduled to start on Monday, July 10, but the Second Criminal Liquidating Court announced that it was suspended until August 22 following excuses from five defense lawyers.

The appeals filed by the legal defense of some of the 26 defendants in the Blue Apple case have kept the trial on hold since June of last year.  

The brothers Ricardo Alberto and Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares, sons of former president Ricardo Martinelli are among the defendants.