– In the database scandal “Papers of Panama” are 1,854 offshore companies from Colombia, 1,245 Colombians, 233 brokers and 679 addresses related to Colombia.
Many of the offshore companies were created in Panama to avoid taxes and launder money, as established by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Monday to release thousands of documents leaked from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
However, the consortium clarifies that most of these economic transactions are legal and does not mean that individuals and companies that appear in the documents have violated the law.
The fact is that the financial market of Panama allows entrepreneurs have a high level of confidentiality and that their accounts are not requisitioned by the competent authorities.
However, the facility to create offshore companies where foreign money is deposited has also allowed Panama to become a tax haven without the necessary regulations to stop illegal activities such as money laundering and corruption.
the list shows 1,245 Colombian officials and intermediaries involved 233 and 1,845 offshore entities associated with Colombia. In many cases, the names that appear in the “Papers of Panama” not directly relate to people who benefit from money from the company, but to a third party responsible for managing amounts.
Among companies Colombia are linked to Ronald Investments, TDI Finance, Investment Totinuni, Solmar Associates, Southern Ventures, Genera Energy, Agricultural Andina, Trading Bisa, among hundreds of others. In the dozens of names of intermediaries are Carlos Cadavid Ignacio Mejia, Sandra Constanza Medina Rico, Diego Charry Parra, lawyers and Fernando Bedoya Goyes Mazuera and Company
from the beginning, Connectas Colombia, an ally of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, established that the list of those involved in the roles of Panama were included more than 850 Colombian investors.
Even gave profiles of some of them, such as Carlos Gutierrez Robayo, concuñado former Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro; Hollman Carranza Carranza, son of Czar emeralds, Victor Carranza and businessman Leon Eisenband.
Similarly, former Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla, financial exsuperintendente Augusto Acosta and the current plenipotentiary minister of Colombia to the United States and former director of Fogafín Andres Florez; entrepreneurs Carlos Gutierrez Robayo, Luis Alberto Rios Velilla and Miguel Silva Pinzon and politicians, Alfredo Ramos Maya and Roberto Hinestrosa King.
When reporting profiles, Connectas said the papers reveal companies or offshore transactions in Colombia is not a crime in itself. The problem is that money has an illicit origin, or not declare DIAN. The tax reserve, there is no way to access the taxpayers of Colombia to contrast this information. This journalistic investigation does not indicate illegality in any case. Therefore, it has properly separate the information to situations that can generate concerns about its regularity with which no, he said.
Most of the documents in Panama Papers are the usual report of trade and some of them are not clearly detailing who is involved. For this selection Connectas identified persons who have public responsibilities or from their private activities have high proximity to public leaders.
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