Corruption
Petaquilla sequestered, Fifer summoned, inside info
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The authorities move against Petaquilla and Richard Fifer, while we reveal some inside info about his criminal activities.
Bananamismo
Petaquilla collapses while staff dabbles in bikini festivals
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With the mining business tanked, the investors relations department shifts to charity with Bikinis, Babes, and Bay street.
Scams & Frauds
Is Petaquilla finally over?
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Petaquilla sent its workers home in what appears to be a further slide towards bankruptcy. Stock trading at just 23¢.
Bananamismo
Memo from the Commodities Desk: Petaquilla, Richard Fifer, Taboga and Navarro
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Petaquilla liquidity trouble; Taboga land and islands not sold after all, and will J.C. Navarro wipe Noriega's poop off his nose?
Scams & Frauds
Is Petaquilla playing the corporate shell game to dodge its creditors?
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Petaquilla gets sued and makes senseless contradictory statements about who owns and contracted what and who and where, while we hear more and more stories about bouncing cheques.
Scams & Frauds
Has Richard Fifer left the country?
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Legal trouble has once again been mounting for Richard Fifer, the former drug trafficker behind the Petaquilla gold mine, and we're told he moved to Spain where he runs new sleazy schemes.
Corruption
Richard Fifer’s embezzlement scheme
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Part two of a series based on leaked documents from the Petaquilla goldmine. How Richard Fifer took a loan, and then tried to run with the money.
Corruption
PetaquillaLeaks: Richard Fifer’s drug conviction
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A leaked cache of documents shows that Petaquilla's Richard Fifer is, among other things, a convicted cocaine dealer.
Corruption
Martinelli changes tactics in mining battle
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Did he, after weeks of battling it out in the streets with a furious Ngöbe Buglé population, tens of wounded, millions in damages, expelled journalists, an international storm of criticism and polls showing that a majority of Panamanians is against mining, finally see the light? We don't really believe that.
Corruption
Petaquilla spill result of fraud
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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.