{"id":164193,"date":"2026-09-23T00:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/panamas-comptrollers-office-seizes-us1-47-million-from-former-ministers\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T00:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T04:28:30","slug":"panamas-comptrollers-office-seizes-us1-47-million-from-former-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/panamas-comptrollers-office-seizes-us1-47-million-from-former-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama&#8217;s Comptroller&#8217;s Office seizes US$1.47 million from former ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Panama&#8217;s Comptroller General orders precautionary measures against former ministers of the Cortizo administration<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Panama has initiated significant legal actions following the conclusion of forensic audit evaluations, issuing precautionary measures totaling 1.47 million dollars. These provisions directly affect former ministers Jos\u00e9 Alejandro Rojas Pardini and Rafael Jos\u00e9 Sabonge Vilar, as part of the oversight processes regarding the management of public funds.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details of measures against former officials<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Jos\u00e9 Alejandro Rojas Pardini:<\/strong> The former Minister Counselor for Private Investment Facilitation faces a measure of 774,462.64 dollars. This action includes the preventive seizure of property, financial assets, and vehicles in order to ensure the protection of the state treasury.<\/li><li><strong>Rafael Jos\u00e9 Sabonge Vilar:<\/strong> The former Minister of Public Works has been subject to a precautionary measure for 704,452.61 dollars. The order includes the freezing of bank accounts and other movable and immovable property linked to the former official.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>The oversight institution emphasized that these actions are purely preventive and administrative in nature. In that sense, they clarified that such measures do not represent a criminal charge nor do they establish, for the moment, definitive liability for the former officials, as the investigations are continuing their legal course.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The evaluation related to former minister Sabonge is still ongoing. Once the proceedings are concluded, the results will be forwarded to the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office so that it may determine the existence of possible elements to initiate criminal proceedings.<\/p><cite>Official statement from the Comptroller&#8217;s Office<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional findings at the Ministry of Government<\/h3>\n\n<p>In a parallel report, audits detected a potential economic loss amounting to 116,498.67 dollars in the Meritorious Fire Department. This finding corresponds to the period between January 2022 and December 2024, a stage in which Roger Alberto Tejada Bryden served as Minister of Government and president of the board of trustees of said institution.<\/p>\n\n<p>For now, the proceedings against Rojas Pardini, Sabonge, and the findings at the fire department remain in a preliminary administrative stage. It will be the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office that is responsible for evaluating whether the evidence collected by the auditors is sufficient to proceed with legal actions against those involved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panama&#8217;s Comptroller General orders precautionary measures against former ministers of the Cortizo administration The Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Panama has initiated significant legal actions following the conclusion of forensic audit evaluations, issuing precautionary measures totaling 1.47 million dollars. These provisions directly affect former ministers Jos\u00e9 Alejandro Rojas Pardini and Rafael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[14316,14982,6357,4171],"class_list":{"0":"post-164193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-audit","9":"tag-comptrollers-office","10":"tag-corruption","11":"tag-panama"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}