PANAMA IS COMMERCIAL CRIME PARADISE, SAY EXPERTS
July 1st, 2016
The leaked Panama Papers exposed the shadowy dealings of Panama’s offshore banking sector, but this is only the tip of the iceberg for a country that has become one of the centres of commercial crime in the Americas. James Bargent reports.
The Panama Papers scandal has brought unprecedented global scrutiny to Panama, a small country in an impoverished region whose emergence as a global hub of trade and finance has also made it a nerve centre for transnational commercial crime.
The millions of leaked documents from Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca have ...
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