Infante & Pérez Almillano

Criminal Law, Criminal Litigation

Attorney at Law since 2001, advising individual and corporate clients on criminal law, economic criminal law, and high-profile litigation. The attorney has extensive experience in matters related to Offenses Against the Economic Order, particularly the crime of money laundering. 

With more than 24 years of professional practice, the career spans both the public and private sectors, combining corporate legal practice with strategic roles within the Public Prosecutor’s Office, where the attorney held significant positions such as Drug Prosecutor, Organized Crime Prosecutor, and Senior Anti-Corruption Prosecutor. 

Training includes programs delivered by the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) of the U.S. Department of Justice, through the U.S. Embassy in Panama, and by IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, among other specialized courses.  

Served as Professor and Academic Coordinator of the Diploma Program on Money Laundering, Terrorism, and Terrorism Financing, organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Universidad Latina de Panamá. This program provided training for Guarantee Judges, Oral Trial Judges, Justices of the Superior Court of Appeals, and Public Defenders nationwide. 

Has delivered trainings and lectures domestically and internationally; has been a Law Professor for more than twenty (20) years at several universities in Panama and has taught courses in the Master’s Degree in Forensic Auditing. 

Author of the following books:

Corporations. Case Law on Law 32 of February 26, 1927. Panama, 2006. 

Case Law 1903. Panama, 2006. 

Constitutional Relief (Amparo de Garantías Constitucionales). Case Law 2004–2012. Panama, 2013. 

Constitutional Relief (Amparo de Garantías Constitucionales). Case Law 2004–2018. Panama, 2019. 

Conventionality Control in the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights and its Application in Panama. Panama, 2019. 

Money Laundering, Terrorism, Terrorism Financing, and Asset Forfeiture. Compilation of Regulations. 2021. 

Lessons in Criminal Law. 2024. 

Public Offices Held:

Senior Anti-Corruption Prosecutor 

Acting Deputy Senior Prosecutor for Organized Crime 

Circuit Prosecutor specialized in Organized Crime 

Circuit Prosecutor specialized in Drug-Related Crimes 

Acting Special Delegate Prosecutor for Drug-Related Crimes in Colón and Guna Yala 

Assistant Prosecutor in the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Drug-Related Crimes 

Assistant to a Justice of the Tribunal de Cuentas de Panamá  

Spanish, English and Gujarati

Panama Bar Association

Bachelor of Law and Political Science, Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua. Distinction: Cum Laude. 

Program of Instruction for Lawyers (PIL), Harvard Law School, United States. 

Advanced Level Integrated Skills Course, Harvard Institute for English Language Programs, Harvard University. 

Bootcamp in Trial Advocacy & Criminal Investigation, Beasley School of Law, Temple University (Philadelphia, United States). 

Negotiation and Leadership Program, Harvard Law School. 

The 4P Framework for Strategic Negotiation and Leadership, Program on Negotiation (Harvard Law School). 

Graduate and scholarship recipient of the XII Summer Academy of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), Austria; intensive program for anti-corruption and compliance professionals. 

Postgraduate Diploma in Senior Management, Universidad del Istmo. 

Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education, Columbus University. 

Postgraduate Diploma in Criminal Procedural Law with a concentration in the Principles underlying the Accusatory Criminal System, Judicial Branch of the Republic of Panama, Judicial School, and Institute for Legal Studies and Research (INEJ). 

Master’s Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Judicial Branch of the Republic of Panama, Judicial School, and INEJ. 

Master’s Degree in Procedural Law, Universidad Americana de Panamá.