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Introduction – What we are offering here is a anonymous Guatemala Bearer Share Corporation and a Guatemala bank account open and functional in 24 hours from NOW, not 24 hours after you spent a week or two collecting documents and send them down to us by courier. You can also have the bank account in Ecuador, Costa Rica or Mexico just as securely since we are using trust agreement banking where the bank does not know who you are and never has an ID documents for you. Read more to see how this works.
Documents Required – We need a notarized copy of a passport and drivers license. Instead of a driver license we can accept a government issued resident card with a photo. The passport and the other ID must be government issued with a photo. You can run out now and have these documents copied and notarized and sent to us as scans attached to an email. Our email address is: staff@panamalegal.org Please send the scans as 300 dpi jpeg or jpg. files. You can use a barrister or lawyer to certify your documents as well as a notary if a notary is inconvenient in your country. You will need to send us the hard copies of the passport and driver license by courier but the bank account will be open and an account number assigned based on your word that the hard copies are coming by courier rapidly. You will be able to wire money into the account. We estimate many of you can get these documents notarized and sent to us as email attachments in a few hours.
Documents NOT Required – We DO NOT need any utility bills, references or bank reference letters. Many of our clients have trouble getting bank reference letters and do not want the bank contacted by another bank verifying the bank reference letter. Nothing needs to be apostilled or certified by any embassy or other authority. You need not worry about security breeches with us.
Payment – If you wish to get the account open fast we suggest you use Western Union. We can have the funds in one or two hours this way. Ask us for Western Union instructions by email or secure encrypted chat. We can also accept a bank wires. Bank wires can take 1-7 days, depending on country, banks, etc.
The International Trust Agreement Bank Account – What we are doing is setting up a trust agreement bank account. You enter into a trust agreement with the Guatemala law firm. The Guatemala law firm appears as the signatory and beneficiary owner on the bank account, not you. The bank has no ID on you at all and does not even know your name or address. You do not have to come to Guatemala, but do feel welcome to come (by appointment only please). You will get a power of attorney over the corporation. You will have the Visa card from the bank account along with the ATM card. You will have the online banking passwords.
Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala and Ecuador – We can accomplish the exact same this using a bank in Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala or one in Costa Rica. The corporation is represented in these countries outside of Guatemala by lawyers we have in these countries. We prefer to use anonymous bearer share companies from the same country the bank is in. Setup pricing is the same in all countries.
Trust Agreement Protection – The bank does not know who you are, only the law firm in Guatemala. Guatemala is not fast to share information with another government. They would only share in a major criminal case that is not tax only. We are talking things like kidnapping, extortion, blackmail, child pornography, narcotics trafficking, etc. Bad crimes. No sharing information on anything civil. They have simply awful relationship with the big country up north most likely to be requesting records. The burden of proof would be on the country requesting the records. No proof of a crime, no sharing of information.
In almost all these cases the records are requested as a source of the proof or evidence so such requests fail in Guatemala. They need the evidence first to get the law firm records of who the client is, not the other way around. Remember getting the records from a bank is automatic. The bank gives the law firm representative that is listed as the signatory beneficiary owner. Getting the law firm to reveal the client is a whole other story. These treaties are for banks not for law firms. Law firms have a right to protect attorney client privilege and conceal the identity of their client. Proof of a major crime directly associated to the bank account is really what it would take to break attorney client privilege. Suspicion and probable cause is not proof.
Let us hypothetically say a request for information was granted then the bank would turn over the records. Banks in all countries as a condition of their license have to turn the information over if requested by their government. So they turn over the records and now the requesting law firm gets the name of the Guatemala Law Firm as the beneficiary owner and signatory of the account.
Now they start to request the records from the law firm. Well now this is not automatic since they a re dealing with a law firm, not a bank. The law firm files objections and it gets set for hearing in a court. Now the requesting country has to retain a Guatemala law firm and show up and present their proof. No proof no records. If they show you on a video camera robbing a bank, doing a kidnapping, blowing up buildings and the like your records are going to get turned over. If they have no positive proof and evidence of you committing crimes that are also crimes in Guatemala (this is the principle of dual criminality) then your records are going to stay safe and secure with no revealing of any information.
The law firm in Guatemala may even be able to recover legal fees from the requesting government if the request was frivolous. Foreign prosecuting attorneys will not be able to provide any testimony (not evidence) unless they waive diplomatic immunity so they can be punished for committing a fraud on the court, perjury, suborning perjury, tampering of evidence etc. Guatemala courts, probably not unlike you the reader, believe that prosecutors from other countries can be less than truthful in court. This is the safest way to bank in the world today. Today the country being used is not as important as the process being used, which is international, trust agreement banking.
The Anonymous Bearer Share Corporation – What we are doing is supplying you with an anonymous Bearer Share Corporation generally formed in the same country as where the bank being used is located. We are able to open the bank account in the name of the corporation immediately after we file to form the corporation. This tells us the name is available for sure. The bank account is opened while the corporation is in formation using the actual name of the corporation just filed as the name of the bank account. We can get you a never used shelf corporation for greater speed but then you do not get to pick the name of the corporation. The countries we use do not tax offshore income. We will send you all the papers by courier after the account is opened. In Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala and Ecuador we use shelf corporations that are of course anonymous bearer share.
The Banks – There are several banks that we use. They have online banking. They offer secured Visa cards. You can have an ATM card in addition to the secure Visa card. The deposit for the secure Visa card is 130% of the credit line. A $10,000 credit limit requires a security deposit of $13,000. Each month the charges are paid from your regular account and the security deposit remains as a security deposit for as long as you have the Visa card plus an extra 30 days. The banks we use in Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala and Ecuador are extremely similar.
The card is good at ATM machines around the world. The cards are delivered by courier. You can have them sent anywhere you like. The bank account can be in Euros or USD. Interest rates on CD’s are competitive. Rates are higher than the USA. Euro rates will be lower.
Documents Required – We need a notarized copy of a passport and drivers license. Instead of a driver license we can accept a government issued resident card with a photo. The passport and the other ID must be government issued with a photo. You can run out now and have these documents copied and notarized and sent to us as scans attached to an email. Our email address is: staff@panamalegal.org Please send the scans as 300 dpi jpeg or jpg. files. You can use a barrister or lawyer to certify your documents as well as a notary if a notary is inconvenient in your country. You will need to send us the hard copies of the passport and driver license by courier but the bank account will be open and an account number assigned based on your word that the hard copies are coming by courier rapidly. You will be able to wire money into the account. We estimate many of you can get these documents notarized and sent to us as email attachments in a few hours.
Documents NOT Required – We DO NOT need any utility bills, references or bank reference letters. Many of our clients have trouble getting bank reference letters and do not want the bank contacted by another bank verifying the bank reference letter. Nothing needs to be apostilled or certified by any embassy or other authority. You need not worry about security breeches with us.
Fees – The fee for startup is $6000, which includes an anonymous corporation, the International Trust Agreement and the bank account opening with the law firm as the beneficiary owner and signatory. The law firm charges 4% of all incoming funds into the account. If you just wish to use the attorney client trust account you can do so for a lower figure. The fee is just $2000 for the International Trust Agreement alone. The 4% still applies to all incoming funds. The corporation is only going to be useful if you are going to have clients or customers wire funds to it. For just parking money for asset protection purposes the attorney client trust account and the International Trust Agreement should work just fine,
If you wish to conceal the actual name of the corporation and account number from bank wire trails you can wire the funds to our attorney client trust account without even mentioning the name or account number of the corporation. If asked what the wire was for you can say sorry “Attorney Client Privilege”. Then you supply us the wire information showing how much you sent from what account and from what bank on such and such a date and the funds will then get posted into your account the next day.
Payment – If you wish to get the account open fast we suggest you use Western Union. We can have the funds in one or two hours this way. Ask us for Western Union instructions by email or secure encrypted chat. We can also accept a bank wires. Bank wires can take 1-7 days, depending on country, banks, etc. After we receive notarized copies of the driver license and passport we will provide western union or bank wire instructions (Swift).
How to Order – First of all feel free to email or call us to chat about particulars or ask questions. We also invite you to come visit us in Guatemala. Please do this only by appointment. The way to start is to first send us a scan of a notarized copy of the passport and driver license. Next we will send you wiring instructions. You pay the fee. Western Union can also be used instead of a wire for more privacy and greater speed (only takes an hour). Then we execute an International Trust Agreement and send it to you by scan. You print it, sign it and scan it and email it back. Then we can file the corporation if we are using one. In any event you will then be able to wire us funds to the attorney client trust account immediately. You could get the documents notarized in a few hours. You could then be wiring funds in about 24 hours. Thanks.
Order Form – To access our secure encrypted online order form go here:
Questions – We stand ready to answer any questions by email, phone, Skye or encrypted chat. Thanks.
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