Roberto Eisenmann´s Daughter deposited $657 thousand in Switzerland

Businessman Roberto Eisenmann´s daughter, President for life of La Prensa newspaper, carried out transactions with one of the main cooperating banks of law firm Mossack & Fonseca, involved at this moment in a global scandal. As part of her relationship with company Hialing Corporation, S.A., Denise Eisenmann, daughter of the businessman, deposited 657 thousand dollars in the Bank UBS Zurich of Switzerland.

Panamá América had access to official documents that confirm the transaction dated November 24, 2014, and bears the signature of the business.

Eisenmann´s granddaughter´s husband, Pablo Andres Obregon Ruiz, was the operating partner and later Chairman of Hialing Corporation, S.A., with which he had done some business with the Programme of National Assistance (PAN), and who was identified by Rafael Jaen Guardia, former Director of the PAN, in the purchase of grains with over costs and backpacks for the Ministry of Education. UBS Zurich of Switzerland helped clients manage companies in tax havens, with other 500 banks, through the Panamanian firm. They were 214 thousand companies that supposedly established by Mossack & Fonseca, with the help of these banks, including UBS which helped with 1,100 offshore, according to a publication of the Mexican newspaper El Economista. Rejection Yesterday, the Government under the President Juan Carlos Varela deemed as unfair and discriminatory the report issued by the General Secretariat of the Organization for the Economic Cooperation and Development (OCDE) which blamed Panama as a jurisdiction that allows a "culture of secrecy". In the letter, which carries the signature of the Deputy Foreign Minister Luis Miguel Hincapié, "the Government regrets that OCDE shows eager to press Panama." The letter which is addressed to Jose Angel Gurria, Secretary General of the OCDE, makes it clear that there is just one aspect of culture or Panamanian laws which has given rise to the alleged malpractices. This is so, at the request of the French Finance Minister, Michel Sapin, to include the country in the list of tax havens. On the other hand, last night, after meeting with the diplomatic corps accredited in the country, President Juan Carlos Varela announced that it requested Vice President Isabel De Saint Malo to contact countries members of the Global Forum and reiterate to the OCDE the disposition to open a dialogue with respect to reaching agreements. At the same time, Varela announced that the Foreign Ministry will create an independent Committee composed of both national and international experts who he did not reveal, to "assess our existing practices and propose the adoption of measures that we will share with other countries of the world, to strengthen the transparency of the financial and legal systems". The brief statement by the President did not give rise to the formulation of questions by national and foreign journalists who were in the Foreign Ministry.