Arquimedes SÁEZ“My extortion ring has been vindicated....”
Ana Matilde GOMEZ“I will not pay a fine to delinquents...”
Monte Friesner’s businesses are disintegrating and we learned that his incompetent lawyer, one José Luis García, spent four years in jail in a serious fraud case.
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.
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.
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.
Patrick Visser of Silva Tree and Dennis Bode of the Kavel Company are the latest rogues to join Monte Friesner and Don Winner in their Panama jihad against journalism.
Scam pimp Don Winner screwed up again as he claimed that your Bananama Republic had been “frozen” by the American FCC to “preserve evidence” of defamation or whatever – and none of it is true.
Law firm wants to shut us down! But we believe the public doesn’t need to be protected from Bananama Republic; it needs to be warned against hustlers like Patrick Visser and their rogue business schemes.
Danilo Arbilla, co-author of numerous crimes against the media and journalists during the Uruguayan dictatorship, is somehow a member of the jury of Panamanian journalism awards.
Patrick Visser, the head of Silva Tree Panama, just wrote us an email announcing that his lawyers will start legal procedures to have what we wrote about him and his forestry outfit removed.
Serial fraud artist Monte Friesner and serial scam pimp Don Winner appear to be suffering from an undiscovered yet potentially dangerous tropical psychiatric disease.
And we have another great example of how just about any foreign swindler can set up shop in Panama: Silva Tree makes false claims and is led by a former real estate and timeshare con man.
Panama’s biggest scam promoter campaigns to violate the neutrality of the Canal by closing it for France bound ships.
In any normal country, this company would be sued for damages well into the many millions of dollars for security failures and responsibility for the death of the taxi driver. But this is Panama, the country of “los groceros somos más” where rich maleantes always get away with everything.
Stanford Bank is being sold, but Bananama Republic just learned that Stanford Bank Panama represents one of the 28167 claims lodged against the failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing Bank hf.
Panama is open for business, but only if you like to be ripped off by our government crooks. In just one day, the Martinelli clique manages to get in hot water with Spain and Bolivia.