Insight Crime on 15th October reported that authorities in Panama are asking the US for assistance in investigating an international arms trafficking network that may have included the participation of former security officials, raising questions about the country’s role in the regional arms trafficking trade. The case implicates several former officials from the Central American nation’s Public Security Directorate (Dirección Institucional de Asuntos de Seguridad Pública – DIASP). Authorities are said to be investigating 9 individuals, 8 of whom are former DIASP officials, for their alleged role in importing 100 weapons into Panama after they were purchased in the US. It says that, in 2006, UNODC found that Panama acts as the “principal port of entry” for illicit firearms from the US and Central America that are traveling into Colombia.
https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/panama-security-officials-international-arms-trafficking/
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