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Tourism

4 Reasons why you don’t want to live on Panama’s Pacific coast

By Okke Ornstein | June 2, 2014

Expat criminals, violence, craziness and tanking property values - living on Panama's Pacific coast is a really, really bad idea.

Corruption

La Estrella runs propaganda piece for Sustainable Capital Group and arrested principal

By Okke Ornstein | January 7, 2013

La Estrella advertises a Panamanian first: Sustainable business run from a Costa Rican jail by arrested teak swindler Maurice Sjerps!

Scams & Frauds

Maurice Sjerps of Silva Tree fame arrested in Costa Rica

By Okke Ornstein | December 28, 2012

Maurice Sjerps, accomplice of Patrick Visser in the Silva Tree/Sustainable Capital Group swindle, has been arrested in Costa Rica for yet another teak scam.

Scams & Frauds

Scam pimps and Silva fraudsters

By Okke Ornstein | November 10, 2011

Reforestation fraudster Patrick Visser's yammering about a picture triggers neo-nazi scam pimp Don Winner fantasies about judges and court orders.

Corruption

Papadimitriu spouts Gaddafi rhetoric in ongoing mining brawl

By Okke Ornstein | February 24, 2011

Just like Gaddafi, Mubarak, Ben Ali et al, Papadimitriu blames protests against Martinelli's mining scheme on outside agitators. Meanwhile, the government bought itself a tribal leader for fun and profit.

Scams & Frauds

Silva Tree starts legal assault against international media – UPDATED

By Okke Ornstein | February 4, 2011

Legitimate companies are too busy running their businesses to waste time and assets on throwing money at lawyers to chase pesky journalists in Panamanian kangaroo criminal courts. But not Patrick Visser's Silva Tree, which has filed a criminal complaint against us and the Christian Science Monitor. UPDATE: Logging in Surinam, extortion.

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