President Juan Carlos Varela pledged to release next Monday the report prepared by a committee of independent experts that reviewed the practices of the financial industry.
He said that this Friday, November 18, will receive from the commission the document. “I will receive it tomorrow [Friday] and I will see it over the weekend and on Monday it will be public,” the president told reporters.
On the questions raised by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Swiss anti-corruption expert Mark Pieth over the lack of transparency of the Panamanian financial system in recent days, he said that “they have the right to comment.”
She once again thanked them for being part of the committee of experts, and that German Chancellor Angela Merkel, “who has a very strong weight, as an honest leader” acknowledged that Panama “did the right thing and took matters out of circulation Outstanding in transparency and financial issues “.
American economist Joseph Stiglitz and Swiss Mark Pieth, a professor of criminal law and criminology at the University of Basel, resigned from the panel of experts convened by the Panamanian government last August.