Three hearings of high profile cases of corruption and money laundering were suspended for various reasons. of corruption and money laundering underscoring complaints by prosecutors  about the  debilitating slowness of the Judicial Branch

Heading the list is  the preliminary hearing of those allegedly involved in money laundering crimes through the law firm  Mossack Fonseca  which  exploded on the world stage  as The Panama Papers and  became the subject of a Hollywood movie, The Laundromat. The case has been adjourned by the 18^th   Criminal Court.

This file originally investigates Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca Mora, founders of the law firm that bears their name as well as Edison Teano and María Mercedes Riaño, who headed the firm in Brazil. And lawyer Ramsés Owens who is wanted in the US.

All of them are  on bail but unable to leave the country.

The hearing scheduled for Wednesday was suspended because one of the accused changed his  lawyer and the new one  requested time to know the file. The preliminary hearing was re-set for December 10-16.

On  Wednesday the Thirteenth Criminal Court suspended the trial of Mayer Mizrachi , the former director of the AIG; Eduardo Enrique Jaén; Adonay Ortega Sánchez, Eduardo Augusto Briceño Ávila and Edgar Ariel Rodríguez.

The trial was suspended because the  Supreme Court received an amparo of  unconstitutionality presented by the defense of Mizrachi. The court did not set an alternate date for the hearing, as it is unknown when it  will resolve the amparo

, the Sixteenth Criminal Court also suspended on Wednesday a trial of five former officials of the Authority of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Ampyme) , for embezzlement.

The hearing is now set for the December 2,- 10.