More than 30 people have been prosecuted for alleged involvement in money laundering and tax evasion scandals around the world thanks to a Panama law firm revealed in 2016 thanks to a Panama Papers news investigation, Pana announced on Tuesday. justice.
It was decided to “prosecute 32 citizens” for financial offenses such as “money laundering” revealed “in the case known as the ‘Panama Papers’,” it said in a statement.
The trial is expected to take place from the 15th to the 18th of November 2022, it is clarified in the announcement. The prosecution of these 32 people was proposed by the Panamanian prosecutor in November 2021.
Judicial sources declined to reveal the names of the accused, as is customary in Panama; however, a source familiar with the details of the case confirmed to Agence France-Presse that lawyers Jurgen Mosak and Ramon Fonseca Mora, whose company is in the spotlight, are among those persons referred.
The machinations of the Mosak-Fonseca law firm were revealed in 2016 in a Panama Papers survey conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
The investigation, based on the leak of 11.5 million documents from the law firm Mosak-Fonseka, revealed that heads of state and government, front-line politicians, figures from the world of economy, sports, art and industry were hiding property, companies , funds and profits from the tax authorities.
Among the figures involved in the scandal are – among many others – the former heads of government of Iceland, Sigmundur David Gunloson, Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, the President of the United Kingdom, David Maugheros, the former Maherd As Cameron, the former Lionel Messi, the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar …
The Mosak-Fonseca company was forced to suspend all its activities after the outbreak of the scandal.
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