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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The sons of former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli (2009-2014), Ricardo Alberto and Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares, were trying to escape from prison in Guatemala where they are awaiting extradition to the United States, an official source said Thursday.
Guatemalan Interior Minister Gendri Reyes told journalists that his ministry had information about a plan by the Panamanian brothers to escape from the Mariscal Zavala military barracks in Guatemala City, where they have been held since July 2020.
The Martinelli brothers. (Photo internet reproduction)
According to the Penitentiary System, due to the alleged plan, authorities searched the prison this Thursday, and the brothers were moved to another location in the same prison.
(MENAFN - Newsroom Panama) Ricardo Alberto and Luis Enrique Martinelli Linares are part of a group of 250 inmates who enjoy all kinds of privileges in the Mariscal Zavala military prison, in Guatemala, where they have been detained since their capture, on July 6 awaiting Extradition to the United States to face money laundering charges which if proven could earn them jail terms up to up to 60 years without the comfort reported last week by the digital news site Relato
In an article headlined Sex, liquor, and privileges, they explain the life of the Martinellis in the Guatemalan prison, in which they report the benefits enjoyed by Ricardo Alberto and Luis Enrique, given the good relationship that they allegedly maintain with Gustavo Alejos, private secretary in the presidency of Álvaro Colom.