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A tenth appeal related to the New Business case has been denied former president Ricardo Martinelli.

This time it is a protection of constitutional guarantees that the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court of Justice did not admit.

The information appears in edict 89 of January 25, 2024, where the reporting magistrate was Olmedo Arrocha. Judges María Chen Stanziola, Miriam Chen, Maribel Cornejo, María Eugenia López, and Angela Russo also participated (with a saved vote. Judges Carlos Alberto Vásquez and Juan Castillo Canto also participated.

Martinelli was sentenced to 128 months in prison for f money laundering. The others convicted of money laundering in the New Business case are Janeth Vásquez, Valentín Martínez Vásquez, Daniel Ochy and Iván Arrocha Chevalier.

This group of people presented the appeal before the Second Criminal Chamber, saying that they sought to reverse the sentence's meaning.