Court denies Martinelli son's bid to avoid arrest

Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares

 
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The plenum of the Supreme Court has denied a writ of habeas corpus for Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares, son of ex-President Ricardo Martinelli, in the Blue Apple. money laundering case Martinelli Linares filed the habeas corpus through his lawyer to block the warrant issued by the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office on September 24 of this year.

The prosecution requested a red alert through Interpol for his arrest.

At an earlier hearing, the court rejected an appeal for the two brothers in the Odebrecht bribery case.

Swiss prosecutors have frozen over $22 million in bank accounts, and Panama has seized a luxury  apartment in Madrid and a helicopter