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The Mossack Fonseca raided by organised crime investigators in Panama

The Police officers search headquarters to ‘establish the use of illicit activities’ including money laundering and financing terrorism The crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm on Tuesday looking for evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients. The dozen police officers set up a perimeter around the offices while prosecutors searched inside for documents. A attorney general’s office said in a statement that the objective of the raid was (to obtain documentation linked to the information published in news articles that establish the use of the firm in illicit activities). The Mossack Fonseca has denied, (search came a day after intellectual property prosecutors visited Mossack Fonseca to follow up on the firm’s allegations that a computer hack led to the leak of millions of documents about tax havens). So finally the real criminals are being investigated, ...