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In court, Mr. Jiménez, a former United States attorney in Miami, presented an interview of one of the magistrates in the case in Panama against Mr. Martinelli. In the interview , which was published this year, the magistrate himself says Panama’s judiciary lacks independence.
“They are trying to say he’s a flight risk because he fled Panama,” Mr. Jiménez said. “Of course he left Panama — they have a corrupt judicial system.”
