During the raids, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office found 9 picnic hams and 17 Christmas hampers from the Institute of Agropecuary Marketing (IMA).
The IMA's Christmas hampers will be held this week in the country's most crowded areas: the provinces of Panama, West Panama, and the district of San Miguelito. Last year, 40,000 hampers were sold, and it is expected that this figure will increase to supply all attendees.
The director of IMA, Nilo Murillo, mentioned that they will continue to work with the authorities so that situations like this do not repeat and stop profiting from a program created to help low-income families.
The next day, Wednesday, December 17, the Christmas hampers will move to the fairgrounds of La Chorrera and the town store in Silos, Pan de Azúcar, district of San Miguelito.
IMA reminds that the sale of Christmas hampers, which include 10 pounds of rice, a can of gandules, salt, sugar, and a bone-in picnic ham, starts at 7:00 in the morning and costs 15 dollars.
"Christmas hampers cannot be bought for resale; this represents the opening of a criminal action," Murillo emphasized.
This Tuesday, it is the turn of the permanent town store, located in Frigo, San Antonio, the parking lots of Rommel Fernández Stadium in Juan Díaz, and simultaneously the auditorium of the Capira district and the cultural house El Cacao in the Orange Fair grounds in Capira Rural.
Recently, the Public Ministry captured a person supposedly involved in the resale of hams intended for this activity; charges of embezzlement as an accomplice were brought against the subject.
