In addition, López received precautionary measures to prevent him from leaving the country and report once every 30 days.

López must also hand over his passport to the judicial authorities.

The former official arrived at the First Judicial District of Panama at around 9:00 am, first to attend a hearing requested by his defense of violation of law and then in the afternoon the hearing was held in which he was charged.

López left the Ágora square, headquarters of the First Judicial District of Panama, after 5:15 pm on Tuesday.

The investigations of this case are carried out by the Specialized Prosecutor's Office against Organized Crime, and the former official.

In this case, eight people, including Omar Pinzón, Frank Ábrego and Belsio González, former directors of the National Police, the National Border Service (Senafront) and the National Service, have already been charged with the alleged illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. Aeronaval (Senan), respectively, and the merchant Jack Betesh Arosemena, from the company Aerotécnica de Panamá, SA, who imported the batch of weapons investigated.

The prosecution tries to specify how and why a group of weapons acquired from Aerotécnica de Panamá, for use by state security agencies, was in the possession of "civilians" and people who "previously held high positions within these estates."