More allegations of Martinelli connection with suspended scandal brokerage
MAYTE PELLEGRINI, the only one currently under arrest in the Financial Pacific (FP), embezzlement scandal again referred to the linkage...
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Call for transparency pact to fight corruption
CATALINA BOTERO, a former member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, has proposed that Panama implement a "transparency pact"...
$10 minimum for prepaid corridor cards
THE MINIMUM payment for prepaid corridor cards will rise to $!0 on December 1 says the National Highway Company. (more…)
OFF THE CUFF: Panamas Corruption Carousel
INFAMOUS -The former private secretary of ex- President Ricardo Martinelli, has described reports of a protected witness that he was...
From Mansion to cell and handcuffs
THE FORMER high flyer who headed The National Aid Program (PAN) has exchanged his million dollar mansion in Costa del...
Recovered corruption money for social projects
WHILE former president Ricardo Martinelli tweets that the present government is moving too slowly, his successor Juan Carlos Varela was...
Brakes on Panama consulates gravy train
CONSULS, long regarded as cosy appointments for political insiders who often returned home as millionaires had their wings clipped on...
Panama kids face social network sex blackmail
A NEW TYPE of social networks sex crime, blackmailing victims, usually children, in exchange for sex is alerting Panama authorities....
CD candidate denounced for sexual harassment
A CRIMINAL complaint against Democratic Change (CD) deputy candidate Noriel Salerno, for the alleged commission of crimes against sexual freedom...
OFF THE CUFF: A Panama real life whodunit
ON THE SECOND anniversary of the disappearance of an auditor investigating the embezzlement of $12 million from the Financial Pacific...
Martinelli flouts Aeronautics hearing
FORMER President Ricardo Martinelli did not attend a hearing today of the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA) on Monday, August 17...
Ex-Education Minister under investigation
FORMER MINISTER of Education Lucy Molinar, is the latest high profile member of the Martinelli administration to come under investigation...
