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Caribbean & Central America - December 2016 (ISSN 1741-4458)
PANAMA: Efforts to boost transparency fail to convince
Last month, the government led by President Juan Carlos Varela released a report by a panel of experts commissioned in April in the wake of the ‘Panama Papers’ scandal [RC-16-04], the biggest leak of secret information in history which exposed the internal operations of a locally-headquartered law firm dedicated to the incorporation of offshore entities. The previous month, Panama signed the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters (known as ‘The Convention’). However, these efforts by the government to reassure vis-à-vis tackling official corruption have yet to convince either the public or some members of the international community.
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