Fugitive Panama money laundering suspect grabbed in US
A key figure in several high profile corruption cases in Panama was detained by immigration authorities in the United States on Thursday morning. March 22.
Businessman Gabriel “Gaby’ Btesh, a member of ex-president Ricardo Martinelli’s zero (inner) circle has an outstanding Interpol Red Alert initiated at the request of Panama anti-corruption prosecutors.
He was detained by agents of the US Immigration and Custom Control Service (ICE).
Btesh, 48, – would have been detained for entering US territory without due inspection reports La Prensa The ICE is part of the Department of National Security the US agency in charge of identifying cross-border criminal activities.
Through its Office Detention Deportation (ERO), ICE “identifies and captures foreigners who represent a danger to national security, and can stop such individuals when necessary and remove undocumented aliens from the United States.
Btesh The merchant is sought through the Interpol alert, to explain his participation in the New Business case, over the purchase of Editora Panama America, S.A. (Epasa) supposedly with public funds.
The red alert entered Interpol on August 3, 2017, at the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office against Organized Crime, which investigates Btesh for alleged money laundering
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