World IN BRIEF : PANAMA : 200 Drug-Linked Accounts Frozen
From Times staff and Wire reports
The Panamanian government has frozen more than 200 bank accounts it believes are linked to members of Colombia’s notorious Medellin drug cartel and to ousted strongman Gen. Manuel A. Noriega, a local newspaper reported. The daily Panama-America quoted a government official as saying that the action was taken in part on information provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The banks holding the accounts were not identified.
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