Panama auditor targets ex-port regulators and Hong Kong firm’s executives in canal probe

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Panama’s comptroller general plans to provide prosecutors with additional audit material concerning former executives of CK Hutchison’s Panama subsidiary. The documents relate to a criminal investigation into the annulled concession for Panama Ports Company’s canal terminals.

Panama’s comptroller general said on Friday that his office would send prosecutors more audit material on former executives of CK Hutchison’s local subsidiary next week, as part of a criminal investigation into the Hong Kong conglomerate’s annulled Panama Canal ports concession. Speaking at the Atlantic Council in Washington, Anel Flores said prosecutors had requested documents concerning Panama Ports Company (PPC), the operator of the Balboa and Cristobal terminals at either end of the canal...