Panama says “Not us, dammit!”

Panama is unhappy that this offshore company scandal has gotten the name Panama Papers.

The Panamanian government said Tuesday that it won’t accept Panama being used as a “scapegoat” for the apparent financial misdeeds detailed in the so-called Panama Papers.

“We are not going to allow Panama to be used as a scapegoat by third parties. Each country (implicated) is responsible,” the presidential chief of staff, Alvaro Aleman, said.

Panama “rejects and regrets” that anyone should want to “trample” its good name … he told a press conference at the seat of government.

The chief of staff or one of his minions has even gotten to the point of trying to change the Twitter hashtag keyword used to denote posts related to the scandal from #PanamaPapers to #MossackFonseca.

Good luck with that.