Carter, Noriega y el banco más oscuro de los años 80

In this new article, I address one of the darkest chapters of money laundering in Panama: the role of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, better known as BCCI. During the research for the book Dirty Money: Chronicles of Money Laundering and Corruption Among Presidents, Businessmen, and Drug Traffickers, we revisited the story of a bank that achieved a global presence, ties to powerful international figures, and a particularly controversial relationship with the Panamanian dictatorship. The narrative connects BCCI to Manuel Antonio Noriega, money laundering operations in Panama during the 1980s, and the figure of former US President Jimmy Carter, through Agha Hassan Abedi, the bank's founder and a donor to the Carter Center. A story of power, money, international politics, and corruption that left deep scars on Panama.