Trump Ocean Club: Another Scandal that Hits US President

Since Donald Trump became president of the United States at the beginning of 2017,  he has been criticized for taking controversial actions.

The alleged involvement with Russia to interfere with the presidential elections held in 2016; the construction of an oil pipeline that has an impact on the environment; the tension of a nuclear war with North Korea; the surprise bombing in Syria; the possible veto of citizens from Muslim-majority countries in American territory; the attempt to repeal "Obamacare", among others, are some of the actions that Trump has been taking since January of this year.

The current scandal that hits the US president has its roots in Panama.

Last Friday, the NGO Global Witness investigation revealed that the President and real estate tycoon made at least 75.4 million dollars from selling his name to the Trump Ocean Club, a skyscraper shaped like a sail, with a luxurious hotel and more than 600 units with views of the Pacific in Panama City, which would have been built in 2011 with drug money.

The organization's report details that several sales agents and investors had ties to drug trade and the Russian mafia, and bought units in the skyscraper for money laundering.

The report says that Colombian David Murcia Guzmán, convicted in the USA for laundering money from drug trafficking, and the Brazilian Alexandre Ventura Nogueira, who was a partner of Murcia, delivered the sale of a third of the Trump Ocean Club units. According to Reuters, these people met the daughter of US President Ivanka Trump, who would have been given the project by her father to carry out the operation.

In order to clarify the situation, members of Panama's civil society requested the Prosecutor's Office to investigate the alleged case of money laundering profited from drug that involved the construction of the condo exclusive hotel in the country's capital, inaugurated by Trump in 2011.