Inoltre per Panama alcune info su come Ciudad de Panama sia ancora il fulcro del narcotraffico mondiale e del lavaggio dei suoi proventi alla luce del sole in barba a qualsiasi legge internazionale LINK

Inoltre se il nuovo ed attuale presidente di Panama eletto un mese fa è anche l artefice di una dei maggiori lavaggi di denaro sporco della storia di un politico , circa 28 milioni di dollari attraverso l utilizzo di molte Banche Panamensi e secondo alcune fonti le top delle Beliziane ( alcune fonti il mese scorso parlavano delle 6 prime banche di Panama , che comunque farebbero lavaggio praticamente con tutti i politici Panamensi e Messicani) e questo caso sparisce dai media appena lui diventa presidente..

Inoltre le FARC sempre più presenti a Panama per la facilità di entrare in affari con la classe politica e finanziaria del paese tanto che anche la nostra Ndrangheta sembra aver eletto Panama come prima giurisdizione offshore per lavare denaro e trafficare coca vista la particolare facilità di entrare in amicizia con i politici e le grandi istituzioni finanziarie ,ovvero le BANCHE di Panama

Italy-Panama Cocaine Network Reveals Mafia's Use of Elite Connections

An international drug trafficking case involving an export company in Panama and the 'Ndrangheta mafia provides the latest example of the Italian criminal group's spread throughout Latin America and illustrates their use of contacts in the region's business and political elite.

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According to an investigation published by Italian newspaperCorriere della Sera on June 18, the Panamanian export company collaborated with well-connected members of Italy's elite to smuggle cocaine from Colombia and Peruto the United States and Calabria, Italy in fish shipments.
At the height of its operations, the Panamanian business allegedly smuggled 680 kilos of cocaine a month inside shark and tuna fillets. Once on Italian soil, the drugs passed into the hands of the 'Ndrangheta mafia.
A series of e-mails also implicate Italian national Valter Lavitola, an entrepreneur who is currently on trial for corruption and extortion, and who allegedly has strong ties with current and former heads of state in the region, including Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli.
The owner of the Panamanian company also appears to have high-level connections. According to Corriere della Sera, his wife worked as an assistant to a government minister and his brother owned a security company that had been awarded major public contracts.
InSight Crime Analysis

Although Italian mafias have done business in Latin America since at least the 1990s, a series of recent arrests suggest they are attempting to increase their foothold in the region, maximizing on a growing cocaine market in Europe to establish operations throughout the Americas.
The 'Ndrangheta mafia -- considered Italy's most powerful criminal organization -- facilitates drug shipments to Italy from countries throughout the region including Colombia, Mexico, Peru and the Dominican Republic.
SEE ALSO: Coverage of Panama
The most recent case in Panama suggests the 'Ndrangheta are facilitating their cocaine trafficking with contacts among the political and business elite not only in Italy but also in Latin America.
Panama's strategic location near Colombia and its canal -- through which an estimated 11 million containers pass each year -- makes it an attractive transshipment point for drug traffickers and a logical choice for 'Ndrangheta operations.



Decisione presa anche dai 4 maggiori cartelli della droga Messicani, quella di operare da Panama logisticamente ed economicamente
4 of Mexico's Cartels Operate in Panama: Officials

Mexico-bound cocaine shipment seized in Panama

Panama's intelligence sources have identified four major Mexican cartels operating in that country, another sign of the widening reach of Mexico's criminals across the region, and of Panama's importance as a regional depot for drug traffickers.

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According to Panama's La Prensa, these groups are: theSinaloa Cartel, the Juarez Cartel, the Zetas and the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO). Intelligence reports and officials have confirmed that these cartels operate in the country, says the paper, using it as an operational base to transport cocaine to Mexico and the United States.
One sign of this is recent violence committed in the style of Colombian or Mexican hired assassins, Panamanian prosecutor Geomara Guerra told La Prensa, with dead bodies dismembered or showing signs of torture. Officials believe the Sinaloa Cartel and the Zetas may be killing off rivals in the country as they move more deeply into Central America.
In 2012, then-Attorney General and current Supreme Court judge Jose Ayu Prado said 100 Mexican prisoners held in Panama were accused of membership in drug cartels. Alleged Mexican criminals arrested in Panama include 16 Sinaloa Cartel members caught in 2007 with 19.5 tons of cocaine, the newspaper says. Members of the Zetas and the Juarez Cartel have also been caught moving cocaine through the country.
In 2010, jailed capo Edgar Valdez Villareal, alias "La Barbie," also testified that the BLO moved cocaine through Panama to Mexico.
InSight Crime Analysis

The evidence collected by La Prensa is another indication that the connection is deepening between Mexican organized crime and Panama, an important hand-off point for north-bound drug shipments, as well as a traditional money laundering hotspot.
Earlier this year, an alleged link between Colombia's Rastrojos and Mexican Cartels was arrested in Panama, and more recently, Colombian officials intercepted a FARC-owned cocaine shipment allegedly destined for Sinaloa Cartel contacts in Panama. Mexican capos have also been reported to do business in Panama, including captured Gulf Cartel boss Andres Vieda Duque, alias "El Duque," and La Barbie. The cousin of Panama's President Ricardo Martinelli was arrested in Mexico and charged with money laundering in 2009, but was later absolved.
SEE ALSO: Coverage of Panama
The Sinaloa Cartel and the Zetas have shifted much of their operations into Central America, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). One major battleground is Guatemala, but the Sinaloa Cartel also operates in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and the Zetas in Belize.

Quindi ahimè purtroppo chi pensa che i Paradisi fiscali saranno out credo proprio che dovrà ricredersi, sia chiaro che io sono assolutamente contrario al loro utilizzo illegale ma purtroppo questa è la dura realtà e quindi chi pensa che proprio Panama o Belize ritenuti in assoluto i Paradisi Fiscali più puri e duri tanto da esserne eletti come base di operazioni di lavaggio sfrontate e di dimensioni infinite possano tra 10 o 20 anni dire addio a segreti bancari e comrporativi si sbaglia di grosso, sarebbe come aprire un armadio pieno di scheletri ,

INFINE Ricordate di lui l attuale presidente di Panama , costui farà del Paese l heden del riciclaggio Mondiale più di qualsiasi altro paese.

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Poi scoprite con incredibile stupore come tutti gli ex agenti della DEA Americana si ritirano spesso a vivere in Pensione a Panama dove fondano agenzie di consulenza finanziaria i cui clienti incredibile ma vero sono gli stessi narcotrafficanti che prima combattevano..aiutandoli a trasformare tutto il cash dei proventi della droga in moneta virtuale passo necessario per lavarli e farli sparire nel nulla, come anche le autorità panamensi dicono, in questo servizio
In Panama, the Money Always Stays Clean..

• [*=center]Written by Pablo Ferri and Alejandra S. Inzunza*

Colombian trafficker Jose Nelson Urrego

Panama is the financial and commercial center of Central America, but also, historically, it is where drug traffickers launder money. Real estate, businesses and even greeting cards are used by the traffickers to confuse authorities. How do they manage to get away with it? The story sounds like a gangster film.

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A half hour later -- half an hour of lies, really -- the visitor paused and smiled at him.
"You already noticed that I don't know anything about banks, right?" he said.
Cautiously, the boss nodded.
"I wanted to meet you because I know it was you," said the visitor.
The boss was stunned. The steak filet that he was eating grew cold on his plate and became stiff, just like his arms -- stiff like rods of steel.
"What?" he asked. "What did I do? What are you talking about?"
"The $600,000 that you took. That money was mine," the visitor said passively.
The boss understood.
"We had been following those people for a long time," the boss says now, years after the encounter, while sitting in the same shopping center in Panama City where the meeting took place. "We had intelligence reports saying that they were moving money and drugs. They were Colombians. When we finally took them down, I had to leave. We caught them with everything: $600,000 in one room."
The money was being stored while the organization erased the traces of drug trafficking; lawyers, financiers and bankers would have been in charge of integrating it into legal markets and closing the drug trafficking ring.
*This article originally ran in Domingo El Universal and was translated and reprinted with permission from the authors. Read the original here.
They sat staring at each other for a long time. The boss does not remember how long, but in any case they were the longest seconds of his life.
"If you're going to kill me," he said, "those two over there are going to take care of you."
He was talking about his bodyguards, who stood a couple meters from them.
"No, no, if that were the case, I wouldn't be sitting here," said the visitor. "I really just came to admit that in this case there was no corruption. I know that. That's part of the game: sometimes you win, sometimes you lose."

*****

About all he remembers about that night is that it was late. He and his bodyguard had come to have dinner at a shopping center near the canal when the visitor, a middle-aged Colombian man, had approached them in the hallway. The boss says he was in shock at the time and to this day he cannot drum up a portrait of what the man looked like.
"Did he have long or short hair? Light or dark? Thick eyebrows, big hands?"
The boss only remembers the visitor's composure, and the details he gave him about the boss' personal life.
"He had done a full investigation into my life. He knew my brand of car, where I lived, where I ate ... I didn't know when he was going to pull a gun on me."
The incident happened just a few meters from where our interview was taking place. The boss was driving towards the old Financial Analysis Unit (UAF) of the Panamanian government, an entity in charge of investigating money laundering cases. He asked to remain anonymous. Under his command, UAF agents brought down a lot of operations and structures tied to organized crime, and he does not want anyone to be able to identify him.
"That day I suddenly realized I was vulnerable," he says.
As the moments passed, and the boss realized that no one was shooting at him, he relaxed a bit. Although the visitor was subtle, the boss noticed that he wanted to put him on his payroll.
"He had come to bribe me. He wanted me to stay right where I was (among the leadership of the unit) and pass him information. He talked about himself; that's how I know he was one of the big ones -- he didn't speak in third person, like a messenger, he talked about himself."
The boss did not understand why the man was there, why he had not sent an emissary, and he said as much.
"Why are you taking such a big risk?" he remembered asking him.
The visitor laughed.
When the visitor made his last bribe offer, the boss made a decision.
"Look, I'm pissing myself with fear, but since you've spoken so sincerely, I will too."
And he told him no.
The drug lord left and the boss was left to stew. His work was delicate, and he knew that. He investigated money laundering cases involving tens of millions of dollars each year in Panama, an important territory for organized crime. He knew, as he explained later, that, "while the government is getting dressed, the criminals are already ready."
This is what had happened months earlier in the city. The antinarcotics unit of the Attorney General's Office and the now-extinct Technical Judicial Police (PTJ) had dismantled a group made up of Colombians, Panamanians and Mexicans that moved cocaine from South America to Central America. The authorities seized three tons of cocaine and put 11 members of the organization in jail. But the operation ended badly -- one of the heads of the PTJ died of poisoning and the antinarcotics prosecutor, Patricio Candanedo, resigned months later.
Then the boss had found the operations room of a group of Colombians and had confiscated the $600,000. Although he still does not know why, the only bad thing that happened that day was that his dinner got cold.

*****

Rosendo Miranda received us in his office, on the umpteenth floor of the umpteenth skyscraper in one of the city's wealthy neighborhoods. Miranda, who was the antinarcotics prosecutor between 1995 and 2005, pursued, like the current head of the UAF, drug trafficking funds in Panama and the financial structures that laundered this money. The lawyer understands that the biggest problem for the authorities here is the volume of financial and commercial activity happening in the country, a facade used by drug traffickers to cover up their real business.
Elegant and concise, Miranda has a certain logic.
"Drug traffickers see it as a business," he said. "Forget for a minute that cocaine or marijuana are illicit substances; pretend that they are legal. From a marketing point of view, what countries would you choose so that your product would most quickly reach your consumer market? Are you going to go to Nicaragua, which has no infrastructure? Are you going to go to Guatemala? No... Of course not!"
The same thing happens with the money. The Panamanian economy grew more than 10 percent last year, the highest rate of growth in Latin America. The Colon Free Trade Zone -- the second largest tax free trade area in the world after Hong Kong -- moved $30 billion in that same period of time and provided jobs for 30,000 people. The famous Panama Canal connects two oceans in just an hour and a half. Such commercial movement creates good opportunities for legal commerce, but also for illegal commerce.
"It's always been this way," Miranda explained. "Historically, there were the famous Portobello ferries in the colonial period; all of the gold that came out of South America passed through here and was sent to Spain. Panama is an attractive country, both for legal and illegal reasons."
Miranda recalled a case that occurred during his years working for the Attorney General's Office, an investigation that began in Canada, moved to Panama, and ended at a chain of household appliance stores in Colombia.
"The Canadian authorities had been monitoring a group that distributed drugs in Toronto, called the 'Angels of Death' or something like that," he said. "The guys ran into problems when they went to change their Canadian dollars for American money and in this way send the money back to the distributor. What did Canada do? They opened a money exchange run by police. They gave them facilities in which to change their dollars and opened an account for them in New York. So the guys arrived with their Canadian dollars and the police changed them for New York bank checks."
The criminal structure ran a cover operation registered in the name of a frontman in the Colon Free Trade Zone and another in Maicao, Colombia. The checks came to the Panamanian business, which then gave loans to the Colombian business. Since the checks were backed by a New York bank, nobody suspected anything.
"Using this strategy, the police were able to see that the criminals sent $36 million through Panama," Miranda said. "The investigations later carried out in Colombia showed, moreover, that Pacho Herrera's group -- a Cali Cartel leader -- set up a chain of household appliance stores, and that the other structure was involved in that as well. It was a very sophisticated case."

*****

In the La Joyita prison, on the outskirts of the capital, Jose Nelson Urrego is serving time for buying an island with drug trafficking money. In 2007, Urrego was sentenced to seven years for money laundering and buying properties with illicit money, among them the Chapera Island, located in the Pearl Islands in the Panamanian Pacific. The judicial report from the Judicial Investigation Unit states that he at one time managed over $25 million in ill-gotten proceeds.
Urrego walked from his cell slowly, dressed in shorts and a yellow t-shirt. He approached the visiting area, a small section with plastic chairs, and sat down next to one of his lawyers, who, after dozens of meetings in prison, had essentially become his partner. He has a wide nose, big ears that stick out, and a soft voice. His eyes were tired and sad. A medical report from the prison says Urrego suffers from depression.
Local press reported that Urrego was a member of the Norte del Valle Cartel, and was involved in drug trafficking since the 1980s. In a book titled Colombia: The Cocaine Cowboys, Colombian journalist Fabio Castillo names Urrego on a couple of occasions as the coordinator of cocaine flights to the United States, and as the owner of a hotel used as cover in the San Andres Island in the Colombian Caribbean. The first time he was arrested, authorities believed it to be "the capture of the last great capo, the biggest money launderer and one of the richest men in the world." That was in 1998 and he was in prison for three years. He was sentenced for illicit enrichment, but the drug trafficking charges were dismissed for lack of evidence.
"My fortune comes from a ranch that I inherited in the 1980s. I've always told the truth. I was persecuted," Urrego told us in his broken, cracked voice. He says he did know major drug traffickers; FARC guerrillas who walked through his family's properties when he was a kid, and corrupt generals. The latter, he says, sat in the VIP area of a nightclub that he ran, where they closed deals with drug lords. According to Urrego, he was arrested because they wanted to silence him.
After he was set free, Urrego wanted a change of scenery and in 2001 went to Panama. The country was undergoing a serious economic crisis. He thought that it was a good opportunity to buy properties at a low price and do some business. He began to take in revenue from the Chapera Island, a paradise with lush vegetation and white sandy beaches, which he had purchased for just under $1.5 million. The producers of the famous television program Survivor decided to film some episodes there. For the rights to film on his beaches, Urrego got around $60,000 per month. The business broke down in 2007, when they arrested him.
"It was a conspiracy," he reiterated, more forcefully. "Lewis Navarro [the former vice-president of Panama] met with me two times to tell me that he wanted to buy the island, that he had a special affection for it because he used to go there when he was young, and I refused."
Navarro has always denied that these encounters occurred or that he personally knew Urrego.
"Who are they going to believe?" the Colombian said, tears falling down his face. "But I am going to fight to get my island back."
For the moment, instead of reality show contestants, members of the Panamanian Air Force, which opened its first Pacific base in 2009, walk along the island's beaches. Their objective is to guard the Pearl Islands, which they say is used by US-bound drug traffickers.

*****

In El Renacer, another prison on the outskirts of the capital, Manuel Antonio Noriega, the dictator who governed Panama from 1983 until 1989, when the United States invaded the country and arrested him, is held prisoner. The former general has spent the past 24 years in prison, first in the United States, where he was sentenced for drug trafficking, then in France for money laundering, and finally, for the past year and a half, in his own country, for multiple homicides during his reign. Noriega, now a sickly 80-year-old man who spends his days between his cell and the hospital, is in great part responsible for the fame Panama gained as a money laundering hotspot. The French authorities discovered that he had received millions of dollars from Colombia's Medellin Cartel, which in the 1980s operated on Panamanian territory with total impunity. In general, all of the Colombian organizations did. Men with suitcases stuffed with cash came to the central bank and, with few questions asked, opened accounts with exorbitant amounts of money.
Now, even with the cash-hungry dictator in jail and a number of new monetary controls and regulatory measures that they have put in place since, there is a certain resignation that in Panama -- a regional financial center and a jumping off point for international commerce -- money laundering will always exist.
"There is no country that is free of money laundering, and much less so a country like ours, which has geographical and commercial characteristics that make the country fertile terrain. These factors predispose us, or make us more vulnerable to these activities," explained Javier Caraballo, a Panamanian antinarcotics prosecutor with a broad complexion, round face and shaved head.
Caraballo said the bank's security standards have improved lately, but that drug traffickers have become more sophisticated. If anyone wants to open an important account in any Panamanian bank, the first thing the bank will do is open an investigation to verify that the future client does not have a criminal record. In the case of Urrego, the prosecutor said, a banker contracted by the Colombian managed to scrub all but a 75-day sentence from his criminal record. The bank did not find any other juridical impediments to opening the account.
"In drug trafficking there is a great specialization of roles," the prosecutor said. "It is difficult to find one singular group that dedicates itself to both drug trafficking and money laundering. Even among the money launderers, there are specializations -- the group that introduces the money in cash and buys luxury items or properties is one; then there is another group dedicated to the more sophisticated part. This includes investors, lawyers, bankers...people who know the system."
For the authorities, the critical moment is when the cash is converted into virtual money or a material good.
"The majority of our successful cases are cracked when they are still in the first phase," the prosecutor said.
Several months before we spoke to him, the police discovered $2.6 million in cash in a luxury apartment occupied by a group of Colombians. Authorities later discovered another four luxury apartments that had been acquired with drug trafficking money by the same organization. It was a typical case of an organization that attempted to launder money through the purchase of properties.
In the later stages of the laundering process, Caraballo said, "following the money trail is extremely difficult. We have had cases in which the only limit is your imagination."

*****

While the government gets dressed, the criminals have already left, the UAF boss recalled as he played with his cell phone. Maybe prevention works, but the criminal organizations learn from their mistakes, and the laws, and they get better.
The boss was thinking of his visitor, the Colombian drug lord, who was not complaining about losing his $600,000 but trying to rectify the situation by bribing the boss, getting him on his payroll.
"The game is the game," the boss said stoically. "It's true. It's a game."
For him, the main problem in fighting drug trafficking and money laundering is the double standards of all the actors.
"When the DEA [US Drug Enforcement Administration] hits one guy, another benefits. And then vice versa, and that's how it always is. It is truly perverse. If the big countries really wanted to combat this, we would all be speaking the same language, but we're not," he said
Looking up at the highest floor of the complex, the boss prepared to leave. There were still some questions, the majority about his recent past. What did a professional like him do with his life after investigating such sophisticated criminal tactics? What did he do with all the information accumulated during all those years?
Quickly, the chief whispered just before he left: "If you get out of this, you get out. If you want to stay in it, you have to be on the other side. Look at the fact that a lot of DEA agents, when they retire, open consultancy firms. Who do you think their clients are?".....

Quella degli Agenti DEA che in pensione aprono agenzia di consulenza finanziaria a Panama già la sapevamo , sono almeno 20 anni che questo business è attivo, io stesso a Panama ne ho viste un paio di queste agenzie di Tax and Money Managemant Service i cui clienti entrano con 24 ore ammanettate.. basta una immagine come questa per capire che tipo di paese è..

Semprefidelis il motivo per cui ho postato queste news è solo ed esclusivamente per rendere tale forum un po meno moscio di quello che è, qui ogni giorno il 50% delle cose di cui si parla sono stronzare e spesso il forum è popolato da soggetti la cui subcultura in materia è spaventosamente pari a 0.Spesso potrebbe risultare anche deleterio leggere info da parte di chi probabilemnte se le inventa di sana piante.Il mio voler postare tali info è solo per CHIARIRE definitivamente che nella realtà chi pensa che certi paesi non offrano sicurezza ed certezza di privacy offshore e che sono li pronti a fare i cani da guardia per la lotta in favore della trasparenza e contro i reati finanziari mente spudoratamente o non sa affatto di cosa parla , non si aggiorna ore ed ore al giorno, fa supposizioni frutto solo della sua immaginazione ma nulla correlato alla realtà , realtà bruttissima ahimè che lo circonda, il mondo è una MERDA come ho voluto dimostrare ma ciò dimostra anche che in questi paesi , io vivo in Belize , non esiste che qualcuno spifferi and altra nazione in white list niente di niente se non vuole vedersi nella migliore delle ipotesi sbattuto fuori a calci in culo dall ufficio di competenza presso cui lavorava..

Si lo so ,certi Paesi andrebbero prima di tutto visitati e capirne il contesto.. poi parlare ed emettere sentenze.

Narco-Islands: Panama's Drug Trafficking Paradise

• [*=center]Written by Irene Larraz*

Islands are worth 1,000 kilometers of road in underworld

Throughout the isthmus underworld, an island is worth more than 1,000 kilometers of road. It is not surprising then that Panama's islands have few authorities and many traffickers.

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One smuggler, who I can only identify as Nico, says he has moved illegal drugs through his remote island area five times. Each time, he chose an island where he would store the drugs, dug a hole, then set out to sea.
The drugs would arrive at night, when he and two others, who'd packed but a jacket for the cold, would use a GPS to guide them to the spot in the middle of the ocean for the drop off. The crews would barely exchange words as the drugs pass from one boat to the other.


To avoid detection, the return trip was much slower: two hours to cover ground that had taken 15 minutes. There, they returned to the hole. The mangroves are the perfect place with their clear, soft ground. After five or six days, they repeated the operation, but they were the ones passing the drugs to the next boat.
"We are what they call mules," explained Nico.
For every trip they receive $5,000 – 10 times what he can earn in a month working in the village shop.
Thousands of Islands

In Central America, there are more than 100,000 islands and many of them are used to stash cocaine and store fuel for traffickers. And while authorities have installed radars to detect flights, checkpoints on all the roads, and hundreds of customs offices, none of these can stop the hundreds of tons of cocaine that authorities estimate go through these islands on their way to the United States.
The history of trafficking via islands is rich. Legendary Medellin Cartel leader Carlos Lehder purchased Norman's Cay in the Bahamas in the 1970s. Fittingly, the island was named in honor of a sixteenth century English pirate who used it as a hideout for his rum trafficking business. In the 1980s, under Lehder's watch, Norman's Cay became the dispatch point for three of every four tons of cocaine that were consumed in the United States.
At the time, Lehder charged $10,000 dollars per kilo to his friends in the Medellin Cartel to arrange shipments via the island. Legend has it that, once his activities were exposed in 1982, that Lehder dropped leaflets on the Bahamian capital Nassau that read: "DEA go home." Some of the leaflets supposedly had $100 bills attached to them.
When Lehder started, he never imagined that it would be so simple to use the island as a logistical support for his illegal activities. But others have since followed his lead, and narco-islands have multiplied: From San Andres, the main dispatch point for Colombian drugs, to Corn Island, the hotspot of Nicaragua, the example has repeated itself. The hidden transit points in Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua andMexico attest to this. For the authorities, these little enclaves of sand, mangroves and beaches represent a horrific challenge.

Panama: A Paradise of Islands

Between Colombia and Honduras there are more than 580 nautical miles. The vast amount of space means speedy outboard motor boats known as go-fast boats do not need to enter the 12 nautical miles that are part of Panama. Still, "there have to be some resupply points," according to Ramon Nonato Lopez, commissioner of the Air and Naval Service Operations (SENAN).
Lopez's team is responsible for 1,518 islands off the coast of Panama on what is a mission impossible. The SENAN has 8 naval bases, 8 helicopters and 24 boats, which do more than tackle organized crime. They also police illegal fishing, guard natural reserves, and do search and rescue operations. The current government promised to install 19 radars -- 10 in the Pacific and 9 in the Caribbean -- but so far there has been no progress.
There was a time when the narcos owned some of these islands. Rayo Montaño had three, "the three Marias," as they are known. The Panamanian authorities seized them from him and his partner, a Colombian named Jose Nelson Urrego, and turned them into air and naval bases, taking advantage of the already assembled infrastructure.
"The islands are very vulnerable; most of them are isolated," said Carlos Chavarria, mayor of Portobelo, on the Arriba Coast of Colon, one of the most active areas.
Still, Panama is the country that seizes the most drugs of any Central American country. So far this year, 14 tons of cocaine have been seized in Panama, much of them in areas like this.
Poverty Equals Opportunity
Although only 47 of the Gunayala islands are inhabited, there is an island for every day of the year. The locals, the indigenous Guna people, do not cultivate coca or process drugs. But a good part of the population lives from them.
They have benefited from geography: the land that the conquistadors once took over is now the envy of modern pirates, who look for a place to hide, to cool off, or to evade the police. This area has become an indispensable enclave for drug trafficking, away from the eyes of the police and surrounded by a population eager to catch the crumbs left in its wake.
Sixteen years ago, the islands were declared a zone of extreme poverty. At the time, a kilo of cocaine fetched from sea was said to cost between $100 - $150, a twentieth of the normal price. And the islands began to form part of the Central American drug circuit. Today, authorities say they have stacks of $100 bills that they have seized. I tried to speak to one of the Guna who was supposedly involved in transporting drugs in the community, but he demanded $6,000 for the interview.
Here, authorities do not bother with small statistics. Seizures are measured in the hundreds of kilos. Although he does not have the exact number, SENAN Commissioner Lopez says it is "the hottest" part of the Panamanian islands. The trip from Puerto Obaldia on the Colombian border to Gunayala in the far north takes eight hours in a go-fast boat, he says. The area is full of rivers and uninhabited islands, and is strategically positioned for hiding during the day, stashing drugs in the mangroves, or simply stocking up on fuel.
During my visit, authorities seized a boat with two people and ten sacks, each containing between 25 and 30 kilos of cocaine. By the next day, the region's fishermen were ready to "fish" for what others might have thrown overboard when they realized they would be captured. They know that whatever they find will be repurchased by other mules from the Arriba Coast.

Rimaniamo nel mio Paese il Belize anche lui non scherza, io ci opero e posso dire onestamente che qui chiunque investa lo fa con le intenzioni qui sotto.Ancora Adesso posso affermare con TOTALE ED ONESTA SICUREZZA E CONOSCENZA PROFESSIONALE DEL CASO CHE IN BELIZE SE FONDI UNA SOCIETà ANONIMA OD APRI CONTO CORRENTE NESSUNO ED ANCORA DICO E RIPETO NESSUNO DA QUALUNQUE POSTO AL MONDO E CON QUALUNQUE PRETESA AL MONDO NEANCHE MOBILITANDO INTERPOL OD FBI O DIA O DEA O QUELLO CHE VUOI RIESCE A CAVERNE UN FICO SECCO , NON SI RIESCE A CAPIRE NULLA, SEMPLICEMENTE SE QUALCUNO CHIEDE LE ISTITUZIONI SEMPLICEMENTE SI AMMUTOLISCONO.SE VOLETE UN MURO DI GOMMA BELIZE E PANAMA SONO AL PRIMO POSTO.QUI NESSUNA CORTE SI è ATTUALMENTE MAI PRONUNCIATA A SFAVORE DI UNA SOCIETà OFFSHORE BELIZIANA O PANAMENSE MA CON CONTO BELIZIANO ,NESSUNA INDAGINE HA MAI AVUTO CORSO.INFINE IN BELIZE MA NON SO A PANAMA DI CUI NON HO PROVE, MOLTI CHE LAVORANO PRESSO LE CORTI HANNO IL LORO BEL BUSINESS DI REGISTERED AGENT.. QUINDI OPERAZIONI CHE SECONDO ME STRIDONO FORTEMENTE CON IL RUOLO OCCUPATO IN CORTE.. AH OVVIAMENTE SNO I LORO FAMILIARI OD AMICI O COME AL SOLITO SOCIETà NON RICONDUCIBILI AD ESSI A OPERARE..




THE STATE’S SECRET: BELIZE’S MONEY LAUNDERING REGIME

July 10, 2014 · by COHA · in Belize, Corruption, Money Laundering, Press Releases
By: Grace Kranstover and Ragini Chatterjee, Research Associates at the Council on Hemispheric AffairsNestled on the northeastern coast of Central America, Belize is often named one of Central America’s most beautiful vacation destinations. With its ornate coral reefs and rainforest, the small English-speaking country has plenty to offer for tourists looking for tropical adventures. Yet, Belize is rapidly becoming known to the international community for attracting many drug trafficking organizations known for transporting marijuana and cocaine into North America. Since the country’s currency is conveniently pegged to the U.S. dollar, Belize also offers nonresidents the opportunity to run offshore accounts. Money laundering has become a prime form of funding for many criminal organizations. As a result, the United States Department of State has recently named Belize one of the world’s “major money laundering countries.”[1]One might ask, “Are all poor countries more open to private investment?” No. However, in nations like Belize, there is a greater problem of overall government mismanagement, which can lead to illegal private investments typically going unnoticed or unpunished by government officials. According to the U.S. State Department, Belize has a complete catalogue of rules and regulations that should be serving the purpose of monitoring various government investments. These regulations include such measures as the Fiscal Incentives Act, Export Incentives Act, the Export Processing Zone Act, Commercial Free Zone Act, International Business Companies Act, the Trusts Act, Offshore Banking Act, and theGaming Act and Companies Act, which “offer some attractive incentives to investors, but in practice these incentives are often not realized.”[2] This means that while Belize has taken measures to prevent underground ventures from happening, its constituents are failing to realize the power of the current laws and the potential negative consequences of not adhering to them. Hence, this shows the vulnerability of the state and highlights the money laundering issues facing Belize.As previously cited, Belize is a hot spot for these illegal activities of creating, storing, and disguising offshore accounts. While it is not a country that is rich in resources, Belize does have high mineral production in clay, limestone, marble, sand, and gravel, all of which form the greater part of its construction industry. According to the Ministry of Tourism and Culture (MTC), Belize’s thriving mineral industry is one of the nation’s biggest attractions for overseas’ investors, along with the country’s beaches and resorts. The MTC also states that “the government supports joint venture[s] and partnership investments as a preferred mechanism; however it also allows 100% foreign ownership of an enterprise,” which is a power that is currently being abused by commercial businesses looking over Belize.[3]These resources, along with the country’s natural allure and fairly remote locations, draw visitors from near and far, adding to the appeal of illegal fund transfers. While private investment does not necessarily mean corruption, in the absence of an effective power structure, corruption is imminent. Therefore, the total number of private investments allowed within the country needs to be monitored and controlled by the government.Since 2001, the United States has become more involved with regions of the world where these types of financial crimes are carried out. The U.S. government’s concern is driven by the fact that financial crimes have been known to fund terrorist organizations. In a report released earlier this year concerning money laundering and other financial crimes, the U.S. Department of State named Belize one of the world’s top locations in which financial crimes can occur [4].The report dives deeper, explaining that Belize’s government has encouraged the growth of offshore financial banking while attempting to diversify its economy. However, due to the country’s weak government and ineffectual control of its financial sector, these monetary activities soon became vulnerable to financial crimes.Several news teams, courtesy of Al Jazeera, have found the source of the problem to be offshore businesses and lenders in Caribbean nations and remote islands. Due to the countries’ lack of resources, trade, and capital, these smaller nations are often willing to host, promote, and disguise questionable incoming funds in an effort to diversify their economies.Caribbean and island nations elsewhere in the world, in the past, have been hotspots for international corruption and money laundering among corrupt politicians, fugitives, and the like. More than 32 trillion USD “in private financial wealth is hidden in offshore havens — roughly equivalent to the annual output of the U.S., Chinese and Japanese economies combined.”[5] The Investing.com article suggests that a company could be based in Seychelles, for instance, and the identity of the owner could remain completely hidden due to the concept of “putting ‘a company inside a company inside a company.’”[6] Many offshore lenders are known to use this tactic. Such a structure allows businesses to hide in multiple places, such as in Belize, without a trace of their pre-existing businesses or professional ties. These nations are notorious for having shell corporations, which make accounts untraceable. Such industries have been extremely beneficial for politicians worldwide, and have been attributed to finance pirates, terrorist organizations, and other fugitives.International organizations have begun to pressure Belize to take more serious steps towards preventing money laundering. The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), an organization dedicated to implementing “common countermeasures” to prevent money laundering, has argued that Belize has not made sufficient progress in creating preventative measures.[7] The CFATF also claims that Belize has refused to comply or act fast enough. The group has gone as far as to call upon its member states to consider imposing countermeasures to protect their financial assets from financial risks in Belize.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has also taken measures to ensure that another crisis in the form of money laundering doesn’t occur in the future. This initiative is known as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as Dodd-Frank.[8] According to researchers for the Council on Foreign Relations, this piece of legislation specifically has the purpose of “monitoring systemic risk, limiting bank proprietary trading, placing new regulations on derivatives, and protecting consumers” to prevent another financial crisis.”[9]Belize has fired back against the allegations of inaction, citing its Domestic Banks and Financial Institutions Act (DBFIA) of 2012 as a serious step towards preventing financial crimes within its borders.[10] On a positive note, the DBFIA did help strengthen the Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2008, which was passed by Belize’s Parliament.[11] The DBFIA helped to improve provisions to govern domestic banks and financial institutions and strengthened Belize’s Central Bank’s powers to oversee and regulate the financial sector.[12] However, as a result of weak governance and rampant corruption among elected officials, the act has not actually deterred criminals from carrying out their illegal financial activities.Overall, smaller nations like Belize are commonly used by foreign authorities, among other officials, to hide suspicious activities. With a weak central government, Belize has become especially vulnerable to financial crimes. In order to fix this issue, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will need to enforce the Dodd-Frank legislation in order to prevent these types of situations from occurring in the future; and through the continued monitoring of countries like Belize, progress is expected to follow. If this legislation is not properly enforced or there isn’t any improvement, training should be provided to the respective government officials. In extreme cases, where there is knowledge of illegal activities occurring, international consequences should be set forth by the main governing entity and be enforced. That being said, change also must come from within. Though Belize has taken some steps in recent years towards ending money laundering, more must be done for the sake of protecting financial investments. For one, corruption within the government that allows these financial crimes to occur must be tackled first as one of the main roots of the problem. Oversight of the financial sector can also be increased through stricter regulations that can help deter financial institutions from promoting and hiding illegal fund transfers. However, due to the nature of international money laundering, it is also imperative that states continue to work together to abolish international financial crimes by establishing international laws and norms that can deter illegal investments from occurring.Please accept this article as a free contribution from COHA, but if re-posting, please afford authorial and institutional attribution. Exclusive rights can be negotiated. For additional news and analysis on Latin America, please go to:LatinNews.com and Rights Action
References:[1] U.S Department of State. “International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Volume II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes.”http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/222880.pdf (accessed June 16, 2014)
[2] U.S. Department of State. “2013 Investment Climate Statement – Belize.” U.S. Department of State. http://www.state.gov/e/eb/rls/othr/ics/2013/204602.htm (accessed June 20, 2014).
[3] “Invest in Belize | Belize Investments | Property Investment Belize.” Invest in Belize . http://internationalliving.com/Countries/Belize/Invest/ (accessed June 26, 2014).
[4] U.S Department of State. “International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Volume II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes.”
[5] Hudson, Michael, and Matthew Shaer. “Sun and Shadows: How an Island Paradise Became a Haven for Dirty Money.” investing.com (accessed June23, 2014).
[6] Ibid.
[7] U.S Department of State. “International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Volume II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes.”
[8] Moyers, Bill. “Bill Moyers | Wall Street’s Secret Weapon: Congress.” Truthout. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/2...eapon-congress (accessed June 16, 2014).
[9] Markovich, Steven J.. “The Dodd-Frank Act.” Council on Foreign Relations. http://www.cfr.org/united-states/dodd-frank-act/p28735 (accessed June 17, 2014).
[10] “Domestic Banks & Financial Institutions Act.” Domestic Banks. https://www.centralbank.org.bz/laws-...stitutions-act (accessed June 17, 2014).
[11] “Money Laundering & Terrorism (Prevention) Act.” Money Laundering. https://www.centralbank.org.bz/laws-...revention)-act (accessed June 17, 2014).
[12] U.S Department of State. “International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Volume II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes.”

Quindi..

Insomma Una Società Panamense con nomenee ed azioni al portatore che fonda IBC Del Belize con conto che ne so io a SVG o Nevis e sei apposto! ahaha

o meglio UNA PANAMENSE che fonda IBC del Belize Che fonda IBC Delle Seychelles ,( tipica e tradizionale triangolazione) , che apre conto a SVG e chi ti prende più! Inoltre le pratiche AML di molti avvocati a Panama sono pura fuffa , puro fumo negli occhi di osservatori stranieri, nella realtà a Panama puoi fondare una società senza ID anche inventandoti il nome del beneficiario, ovviamente poi non riesci ad aprire il conto visto che mancano i docs del beneficiario inventato.. ...

Vorrei porre in risalto la frase dell articolo del Belize che dice "No. However, in nations like Belize, there is a greater problem of overall government mismanagement, which can lead to illegal private investments typically going unnoticed or unpunished by government officials."
La dice lunga sulla morale di questi paesi..

Questo mi riporta a pensare su quello che c'è scritto sul sito della TGH Abogados sulle carte di credito anonime in basso alla fine della pagina di cui scrivono che gli unici ad emetterle sono la Choice Bank del Belize ed una Banca della Tanzania, in effetti mi sembra che anche la Payoner sia emessa dalla Choice del Belize, questi davvero sono un paese progettato ad un solo scopo, immagini che non ci sarà da parte loro neanche una futura dichiarazione di intenti a voler fare qualcosa..