Colombia’s Finance minister on Monday refuted claims that he abused his position for personal profit false, saying that he did not use a scheme to “defraud the authorities.” Alberto Carrasquilla…
Colombia’s President-elect Ivan Duque on Wednesday reappointed the controversial former finance minister of his political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe. Incoming Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla is an economist and investment…
Multiple top businessmen were arrested in Colombia Wednesday for alleged crimes of fraud and money laundering that came to light through investigations related to the “Panama Papers” scandal. Six business…
Two thirds of the 1,245 Colombians that appeared in The Panama Papers have evaded taxes by not reporting their foreign assets with Colombia’s tax agency, the finance minister and tax…
Even though the “Panama Papers” revealed how Colombia’s elite systematically hid money from tax authorities in offshore tax havens, the same elite’s influence in media has prevented public outcry, according to the…
Investigations of those named in leaked documents of the Panama Papers are set to begin, the Prosecutor General has announced.
More than 1,200 Colombians appeared in The Panama Papers Monday when the investigate journalism project released the full record of Panamanian law company Mossack Fonseca, which has been accused of aiding…
Some of Colombia’s top politicians and businessmen have been outed for storing money in tax havens, according to the leaked documents of the so-called “Panama Papers.”
Following global embarrassment over The Panama Papers, the central American country agreed to share tax information with Colombia, tightening the net around its South American neighbor’s tax evaders.