Panamas Washington meeting on money laundering, drugs

Panama.’s Attorney General Kenia Porcell, met in Washington on Tuesday with Kenneth A. Blanco, director of the agency of the Department of the Treasury of the United States that fights financial crimes.

According to the Public Ministry, the meeting was to “strengthen the bonds of collaboration” between the Panamanian entity and the United States.

This collaboration is to fight “against financial crimes, money laundering, drug trafficking, organized crime, and corruption.

The Treasury Department is the one that put Abdul Waked and his family conglomerate on the Clinton list over alleged links to money laundering and drug cartels a move that forced the sale of The Felix Maduro chain,  the Soho Mall and the Balboa Bank.