Anti-crime speaker hid dirt money in Panama

A SPANISH police Commissioner scheduled to talk at a Panama forum on corruption at the Trump Tower  Hotel this week hid money received for operating a smear campaign in Panama banks. He is now in a Spanish jail.

Police Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, was arrested along with his partner Rafael Redondo by the Internal Affairs Unit of the National Police of Spain. He is being investigated by the Special Prosecutor Against Corruption and  Organized Crime in Spain for operations in Equatorial Guinea and China.

The El País newspaper revealed that he tried to sell encryption systems to China and Iran. In Equatorial Guinea, Villarejo received payments in exchange for finding “dirt” on the son of the president and disseminating it as part of a smear campaign.

He would  have received a payment of 5.3 million euros (about $6.2 million). Part of the money would have been deposited through bank accounts located in Panama, using various anonymous companies according to the newspaper.

A report from the Internal Affairs Unit, published by Público, names Cenyt Consultoría International as a member of the investigated business structure and names it as a payment outlet in 2011, with Panama, the United States and Uruguay as “participating countries”.

The event that Villarejo was to attend in Panama still appears on the hotel agenda under the name “Foro Legal Empresarial Compliance 2017 “for Thursday, November 23. With the theme “Experience and

compliance perspective in Europe and Latin America “. reports La Prensa It was announced that it will be inaugurated by the Minister of the Presidency Álvaro Alemán.

On the official website of the Forum, it says that “Forum attendees will be able to illustrate their police experiences in matters of corporate and financial intelligence,  and experiences in the problem of tracking of goods and in practical matters that concern research on frameworks of

hidden companies.  The conference was organized by Panama law firm Moncada.