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Corruption in all its glory
La Prensa's website has been offline since 10:20 AM, after the newspaper published damning evidence of mega-corruption by president Martinelli and his family.
The Colombian arms trafficker who made it tourism minister in Panama spent a million bucks on a defunct website and can't figure out where it ranks in the search engines.
Finmeccanica bribe boat breaks down and there's no money for new engines.
Panama may not rank that high on the list of NSA targets for mass surveillance, but we still have a FinFisher espionage command and control server being run in Panama by what appears to be the government.
Trial starts in July and promises to sink Martinelli and his political project.
More questions than answers in secret mobster recording scandal that caused the downfall of Roberto "Bobby" Velasquez, while more secret recordings suggest hot election season.
The Mossack Fonseca & Co Dubai office was instrumental in the 2003 attempt to launder tens of millions of stolen money, lending credibility to allegations that the firm may have laundered Libyan funds looted by Gaddafi.
Journalist Okke Ornstein featured on Slovenian TV in expose about rogue businessman who flaunts fake Panamanian diplomatic passport obtained from Monte Friesner's Core Diplomatique foundation.
This project has had 15 % normal sales completed since its inception in 2006/2007. The rest represents bulk deals with people associated with Merchbanc in Spain and four lawfirms in Panama creating anonymous holding vehicles for unknown owners. The project remains over 50 % unsold. It is hard to reach any conclusion but that substantial amount of money laundering is taking place.
The liquidation of COACECSS is not the result of their shoddy management and ties with financial criminals, but of a vicious yet unspecified campaign, the directors claim.