Panama announced that it has formalized diplomatic relations with Mongolia. The Ministry of Foreign Relations said that the countries have agreed to a relationship based on the terms of the 1961 Vienna Convention, United Nations principles and international law. Broadly speaking, the idea is to develop a friendly and cooperative political, economic and humanitarian...
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House of Spain Scandal Unveils Panamanian Front Man
Panamanian Gustavo Alberto Newton Herrera has been implicated in a corruption and money-laundering scandal with ties to the very heart of the Spanish Royal family. Newton Herrera, age 50 and with offices listed in Century Tower in Panama City, is believed to have served as a front man for the alleged shady tax haven...
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Kingpins for Panama-based Operation
The U.S. Treasury Department designated Lebanese-Colombian nationals Jorge Fadlallah Cheaitelly and Mohamad Zouheir El Khansa as drug kingpins for their Panama-based money laundering activity. “Jorge Fadlallah Cheaitelly runs an extensive money laundering network based in Panama and Colombia with ties to Mexico, Lebanon, and Hong Kong,” Adam Szubin, Director of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign...
U.S. Returns Ex-Seaman and Hijacker to Panama
A former U.S. Navy seaman who killed two people during a 1977 bus hijacking in New York City was deported to his native Panama on Wednesday. Robinson, now 61, served 34 years of a 15-to-life sentence for fatally shooting Nettie Blassberg, a 60-year-old passenger, and bus driver Norman Bozick during a nine-hour stand off...
Panama: The New Miami
Vice Minister of Tourism Ernesto Orillac presented Panama as the new Miami at this week’s World Travel Market in London. “Panama has positioned itself as the new Miami on this side of the World,” Orillac said, noting that the country draws not only an increasing number of business travelers but also shopping tourism, mainly...
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