Panama Papers money laundering trial gets underway in Panama City

Panama has put on trial 27 people implicated in the Panama Papers money laundering scandal, exposed in a 2016 leak of the secret financial information of thousands of wealthy business figures and officials from a law firm in the tax haven. File Photo by U.S. Department of State/UPI April 9 (UPI) — A Panamanian criminal court on Tuesday launched a trial for 27 people charged in the Panama papers money laundering scandal, eight years after a leak from a law firm in the tax haven exposed the secret financial dealings of thousands of wealthy business figures and officials from around…