https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2013/02/26/the-manuel-noriega-connection-to-the-family-behind-the-melgen-menendez-dominican-port-security-deal/
When Noriega was deposed during the American invasion of Panama in 1989, his wife and two of his sons fled to the Dominican Republic, where they lived with General Beauchamp and his family for a period of time. Noriega’s daughter Sandra was apparently already living in the Dominican with her husband, Beauchamp’s son.
Noriega was convicted in an American court in 1992 of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering. He was released from an American prison to French custody in 2007, where he was convicted of additional charges money laundering and drug trafficking. In December, 2011, he was returned to Panamanian custody, where he is in prison awaiting murder charges.
One Dominican publication, La Nacion Dominicana, claimed in a March 2012 report that sources told their reporters Noriega may have played a role, either as a direct or indirect investor, in the dubious 2002 port deal through his former son-in-law, Jean Rene Beauchamp Galvan.
In August, 2011, Dr. Salomon Melgen purchased a controlling interest from the Beauchamp family in ICSSI, and with that purchase came the rights to the disputed 2002 port security contract with the Dominican government.
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