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Kellner said Noriega received payoffs from Escobar and Ochoa to protect cocaine shipments flown from Medellin, Colombia, through Panama to the United States...
...Miami indictment accuses Noriega of racketeering, and manufacturing, importing and distributing cocaine, as well as traveling to aid the conspiracy...
...indictment says that Noriega, after he took control of Panama in 1983, "utilized his official positions to provide protection for international criminal narcotics traffickers," including the Medellin Cartel, said to be responsible for 80 percent of the cocaine reaching the United States...
...Noriega also allegedly arranged for the shipment of cocaine processing chemicals, including those seized by Panamanian police agencies and allowed the cartel to construct a cocaine laboratory in Panama's Darien province...
...Noriega laundered millions of dollars of the cartel's narcotics proceeds in Panamanian banks, prosecutors said...