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  • Panama dismantles drug network linking FARC with Mexican cartel

    PANAMA, 2015/11/09

  • Panama tightens money-laundering regulations

    PANAMA, 2015/07/18 A drive to combat money laundering in Panama took a key step forward in June, with the approval of legislation that the country hopes will accelerate its removal from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) “grey inventory”. The FATF is an influential, inter-governmental body tasked with tackling threats to the integrity of the international economy. Panama is one of 11 listed nations that have been judged by the task force to fall short of full “anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism” (AML/CFT) compliance. The FATF as well holds a separate “black inventory” of jurisdictions deemed as “high-risk and non-cooperative”.

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • HMS Argyll sails across the Panama Canal on the last leg of her deployment

    PANAMA, 2013/08/27 HMS Argyll made the spectacular journey through the canal to continue her deployment and will presently take part in further counter-narcotics work and regional engagement visits before returning to her Devonport home in September. South Atlantic patrol HMS Argyll is coming to the end of her seven month deployment and next month is expected back in Davenport. Last week the Type 23 frigate crossed the 80 kilometre Panama Caal sailing two seas in one day, next finishing an intense period of counter-narcotics operation in the Eastern Pacific.
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