{"id":19822,"date":"2012-03-26T10:25:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19822"},"modified":"2012-03-26T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T14:25:53","slug":"bahamian-lawyers-bankers-suspected-of-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/bahamian-lawyers-bankers-suspected-of-money-laundering","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Lawyers, Bankers Suspected of Money Laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian bankers and lawyers may have assisted the former President of Panama in setting up and administering a Bahamian shell corporation and bank account that were allegedly used to launder more than $176 million between 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19825\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19825\" title=\"balladares\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/balladares-250x157.jpg\" alt=\"former president of Panama\" width=\"250\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/balladares-250x157.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/balladares-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/balladares.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ernesto (El Toro) Perez Balladares<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recent editions of La Prensa\u00a0  newspaper from March on March 21 and 22 last year said that former Panama president Ernesto (El Toro) Perez Balladares\u00a0 &#8220;could  be subject to a second criminal investigation&#8221; for money laundering for  &#8220;alleged irregularities in a bank account in the Bahamas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Balladares is suing \u00a0the civil Corporation La Prensa SA for $5.5 million damages.<\/p>\n<p>The information, according to <em>La Prensa<\/em>, came from the Attorney General.\u00a0The prosecutor Marcelino Aguilar considered starting another process after tracing \u00a0checks of Banistmo Seaside Foundation International (Bahamas) signed by \u00a0Dora Perez Balladares, wife of the ex-president , for society Shelf Holding, consider starting another process.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Public Ministry Shelf Holdings, a company &#8221; which  handled more than $20 million,&#8221; the president not only had signature  authority but its board consisted of \u00a0his secretary Eyda Chacon and two others who worked for him.<\/p>\n<p>According to official sources, reported <em>La Prensa<\/em>,  the Bahamas account against which checks were issued recorded more than  $176 million between 2009 and 2010.\u00a0Before publishing \u00a0the two  editions, the newspaper contacted the defense team of the ex-presidennt and published his version, said <em>La Prensa.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers in The Bahamas may have assisted the former President of Panama in setting up and administering a Bahamian bank account that was allegedly used to launder more than $176 million between 2009 and 2010. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[100,93,31,257],"class_list":["post-19822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-money-laundering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}