The explosive Panama Papers affair has snared three businessmen with Guyanese links and has opened up new speculations as to who else might have been involved.
The three businessmen are: Edris K. Dookie former Vice President of CGX; Yucatan COUTINHO REIS, a Brazilian who has business interests here and Chetwynd R.F. Bowling another local businessman.

According to the data released on Dookie is a shareholder of Oyster Oil And Gas Limited and active company located in British Virgin Island that was registered in September, 2010. Back in 2013 CGX had announced that Dr. Dookie was no longer an officer of any subsidiary of the Canadian firm including the positions of Executive Vice President, CGX Resources Inc., a 100% owned subsidiary of CGX and President, ON Energy Inc., a 62% owned subsidiary of CGX. Commenting on the change in a statement, back then Kerry Sully, President and CEO stated, “Dr. Dookie was the co-founder of CGX and has played an instrumental role with the Company since its inception in 1998. He is a talented individual who we wish the best in his future endeavours.”

Bowling’s address is listed as 20 Main and St. John Street, New Amsterdam, Berbice, Guyana. He is a director and shareholder of Alinga Consulting Group LTD- located in New York. The company is listed as active. Reis was a director of Muri Brasil Ventures Inc, the controversial company that was handed a permit to conduct survey and prospecting in the New River Triangle for rare earth elements, bauxite, limestone, nephelene, syenite, gold, diamonds and granite stones. According to the Panama Papers data Reis is a beneficiary of Equatorial Project Management and Engineering Enterprises Ltd- a company that was incorporated in The British Virgin Islands on January 18, 2013. The company is listed as “bad debt account.” Also its address is given as Calle Oeste 12 Esq. De Puente Nuevo A Quebrada ED1F64 1 Apt. 11. Urb. Parroquia San Juan, Caracas Distrito, Capital Venezuela.

In a release the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists that publishes the Panama Papers said that the investigation is the largest ever release of information about offshore companies and the people behind them. This includes, when available, the names of the real owners of those opaque structures. The database also displays information about more than 100,000 additional offshore entities ICIJ had already disclosed in its 2013 Offshore Leaks investigation. ICIJ said it is publishing the information in the public interest. It said too that new data that it is now making public represents a fraction of the Panama Papers, a trove of more than 11.5 million leaked files from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, one of the world’s top creators of hard-to-trace companies, trusts and foundations.

ICIJ said it is not publishing the totality of the leak, and it is not disclosing raw documents or personal information en masse. The database contains a great deal of information about company owners, proxies and intermediaries in secrecy jurisdictions, but it doesn’t disclose bank accounts, email exchanges and financial transactions contained in the documents. The data was originally obtained from an anonymous source by reporters at the German newspaper Süeddeustche Zeitung, who asked ICIJ to organize a global reporting collaboration to analyze the files. More than 370 reporters in nearly 80 countries probed the files for a year. Their investigations uncovered the secret offshore holdings of 12 world leaders, more than 128 other politicians and scores of fraudsters, drug traffickers and other criminals whose companies had been blacklisted in the US and elsewhere.