Weekly Report - 27 January 2004

CENTRAL AMERICA: Panama flushes out Alemán & Portillo accounts

Central America & Caribbean 24 April 2007 Modified: 27 January 2004 487 views

Panama's special bank auditing team, the Unidad de Análisis Financiero (UAF), has turned up a string of accounts that have attracted the attention of Central American authorities investigating high-level corruption in their countries. Among 392 accounts suspected of being conduits for money laundering, they have found a number linked to two former presidents, Arnoldo Alemán of Nicaragua and Alfonso Portillo of Guatemala.

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