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Trump name stripped from Panama hotel in property dispute

The US$430 million complex was inaugurated in 2011 by Mr Trump and Panama's then president

Published Tue, Mar 6, 2018 · 09:50 PM

Panama City

WORKERS pried the name "Trump" off a luxury hotel in Panama City on Monday as its owner said he had succeeded in expelling the American president's family from managing the building.

Cypriot businessman Orestes Fintiklis, who owns a majority of the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama, said it was "a commercial dispute that just spun out of control, and this dispute has been settled by the judges and the authorities in this country".

Workers removed the Trump logo from the entrance to the luxury complex, as police stood guard and a Pan…

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