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PANAMA: ACCUSATIONS OF MASSIVE BRIBERY IN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY START NATIONAL FUROR OVER CORRUPTION.

Publication: NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
Publication Date: 31-JAN-02
Format: Online - approximately 697 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Panamanian Legislative Assembly Deputy Carlos Afu charged in mid-January that all deputies of the Partido Revolucionario Democratico (PRD) were offered US$20,000 bribes in exchange for votes on a public-works construction project. He also said he had received several death threats to keep him quiet about the bribes.

Afu said the bribes came from the San Lorenzo consortium, an international construction group comprising two US firms, three Panamanian firms, and one Swedish firm. San Lorenzo was competing for a government contract to build the Centro Multimodal, Industrial y de Servicios (CEMIS) for industrial and transportation use in the Caribbean port city of Colon at...

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