[SAJ]

Pete -- I'm in the States right this minute. Only thing I've heard so far is that Varela is outright pissed about this development. Which probably translates to that 'he is pissed about this information being exposed to public view'. There isn't a doubt in the world that he was always perfectly well informed about the machinations of this (and other) law firms: banking secrecy is, after all, one of Panama's principal financial raisons d'etre, right?

Good general hypocrisy on all sides, here. Sort of amusing, but doubtless you and I will still have to fill out all the forms in the free world to show that we don't have 10K on deposit anywhere in Panama, no?

I believe I'll play a bit of trivia tonight; the hotel I'm staying at has a game (with $5.00 pitchers of Bud), so it shouldn't be an entire loss.

Yours for staying under the radar,
Stu

[expat_panama]

...you and I will still have to fill out all the forms...

Me & the wife were chatting about this, that the Panama gov't intentionally makes it harder on us so we "think" they care about money laundering.  My bet is Putin didn't have to fill out anything for his Panama account.  Kind of like O making the budget fuss as hard as possible --even when it cost more money from the treasury.