Arquimedes SÁEZ“My extortion ring has been vindicated....”
Ana Matilde GOMEZ“I will not pay a fine to delinquents...”
Russian Duma report implicates Monte Friesner in massive looting »
The Russian State Duma (parliament) issued a report last year in which Monte Friesner (Монте Морис Фризнер), Lawrence B. Heath (Лоренс Хиз) and their company Carlyle-Coutts Capital Corporation S.A. are accused of laundering massive amounts of stolen funds from the former Soviet Union. In Panama, the political and legal protection of Friesner’s scams continues.
Petaquilla spill result of fraud »
According to its own environmental impact study, an emergency tank should already have been there in January, before they started operations. Why Petaquilla was allowed to start operating without having complied with that condition in an area that gets vast amounts of rain year-round is anyone’s guess.
Legislator José Blandón’s law firm protects scammer Monte Friesner »
While the pressure on Panama to clean up its legal system and corruption is mounting, a prominent legislator’s law firm is in bed with a convicted serial fraud artist from Canada.
Gustavo Perez, what did you do with Valentín Palacios? »
Valentín Palacios has been missing for over a month after being taken by the police. The situation in Panama is now so bad, and the opposition and the media so lame, that when the police disappears somebody this now generates far less response than during the dictatorship when opposition was more dangerous.
Gomez conviction another nail in Martinelli’s coffin »
The conviction of Ana Matilde Gomez, attorney general of Panama and prosecuted by Martinelli’s yes-men because she tapped the phone of a victim (at the victim’s request) of extortion by a corrupt prosecutor,is yet another act of political self-immolation by Martinelli and his clique of mobsters.
MARTINELLI OR NARCONELLI? »
Yesterday the legal counsel of David Murcia, Margarita Pabon, was extradited from Colombia to the United States, on charges of money laundering. As soon as the news of her extradition became known, the server of the Public Registry in Panama “crashed”….
Wild Bill – it’s a right wing thing »
In all these years in Panama, we’ve not once come across a liberal left-wing progressive running a scam; it’s always a strange mix of Christian conservatism with a sauce of bizarre libertarianism, of very low intellectual fiber, as if you’re talking to the Down syndrome department of the Tea Party.
Oscar Ceville ordered illegal wiretaps himself »
Oscar Ceville, in charge of the prosecution of Ana Matilde Gomez, illegally ordered phones to be tapped and computers to be broken into, his former security chief has stated.
Take the bus to Boquete, get shot at. »
This is why we have all these police roadblocks and checkpoints everywhere, dear reader. Our golden duo, minister Mulino of State Repression and Insecurity and police chief and war criminal Gustavo Perez, are so busy shooting protesters in the face, killing others and shaking down drivers for bribes at these checkpoints that the criminals can do what they want!
Martinelli travels to Bocas with gifts for the savages while super99 boycott picks up steam »
Martinelli will travel to Bocas carrying beads and shiny things, for the savages. Meanwhile, not just got Global Bank torched last week (Martinelli is a shareholder) but in Santiago activists cordoned off Super99!
Panama’s cartel de los sapos »
This picture shows how three men try to kidnap Andrés Rodríguez. Rodríguez is a school teacher, and also a union leader, and he was one of these leaders our heroic government had on its blacklist of subversives who needed to be arrested for harboring contra-revolutionary ideas.
Panama’s brilliant intelligence service – anyone know these guys? »
Now here’s your homework, dear Bananama Republic reader. We want to know who these three men are. Names, numbers, rank, previous experience, how many girlfriends, everything. Plus we want to know whose car this is. We want to know where THEY live for a change!
Panama’s tourism minister implicated in arms trafficking by Colombian authorities »
The picture of Salomon Shamah, who was born Colombian and naturalized Panamanian and is now minister of tourism and a key figure in Panama’s relations with Israel, is part of documentation revealed by Colombian sources in which also other members of Martinelli’s government are exposed. It is not clear when Colombia’s security service DAS pinpointed Shamah as part of the trafficking network that supplied Colombia’s various armed groups with weapons.
Case of jailed journalist ties into ANAM corruption under Martinelli »
The arrest and detention of 70 year old journalist Carlos Núñez López is related to a story he wrote about plans by Chiriqui businessman Enrique Luis Morales de Icaza to build a hotel in the midst of the Volcán Baru National Park; a plan that Martinelli’s ANAM has since approved.
MasterCard® investigates Monte Friesner’s Pronto Cash debit card scheme »
Bananama Republic has learned that MasterCard’s fraud department is investigating Pronto Cash, a debit card scheme in Panama that is run by Canadian fraud artist Monte Friesner.
