Study in Panama warns of high infiltration of organized crime in the private sector | Video

Panama City, Nov 21 (EFE).- Panama is one of the countries with “greater infiltration of criminal actors within the private sector,” which must strengthen its self-regulation and also expose members who make the system sick, Edgardo Sandoval Ramsey, regional coordinator for Central America of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), told EFE.

CAMERA: CARLOS LEMOS.

STATEMENTS BY EDGARDO SANDOVAL RAMSEY, GI-TOC REGIONAL COORDINATOR FOR CENTRAL AMERICA:

There are both: there are companies that collaborate wanting to collaborate with organized crime, but there are also companies that collaborate without knowing that they are collaborating with organized crime. The Panamanian financial system, the service system, let's say being a forum for the incorporation of companies, having these facilities somehow generates an attractive space for organized crime actors to be able to do it proactively. But there is also a lot of use, for example, of front companies to carry out criminal acts and to launder money. But there is also lax self-regulation. Within the private sector there is an interest, therefore our interest, to be able to strengthen the private sector so that it can self-regulate and also be a collaborator with the public sector to generate public policies that heal the space that is sick at the moment.

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Date: 21/11/2024 15:35 (UTC)
Credit: EFE
Source: EFE
Topic: Unrest and conflicts
Crime, law and justice » Organized crime
Type: Rough cut
Duration: 63 seconds
Reference: 55015303059
Relevance: Normal