“On the front burner” in a plethora of criminal cases against Ricardo Martinelli (some thrown out by lower courts for reasons specious on their faces only to be reinstated on appeal) is one that goes to the heart of the former president’s hopes of a return to power, the New Business peculation and money laundering charges. That is, that Martinelli bought the EPASA newspapers by way of a skim from overpriced public works contracts, which money was laundered and put into a company called New Business, which bought the media company that publishes El Panama America, La Critica and Dia a Dia. Here we see Martinelli raising the alarm in El Panama America, and this was before Spain revived the money laundering investigation against him.