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Prosecutor General of Russia began checking on the “Panamanian documents” and sent a request to the authorities of Panama in connection with the offshore scandal, said Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika.
According to Chaika, testing at an early stage, its results will be reported to the country’s leadership and published.
“We have no doubt that we are dealing with a well-planned operation, the center of which foreign country .. . Leaking documents could not be without the participation of officials. We are in an information war “, – said Chaika, speaking in the Federation Council
In the beginning of April at the disposal of the world’s major media have millions of documents, which indicated that the Panamanian company Mossack Fonseca, in some cases helped customers launder. money, to avoid sanctions and evade taxes.
in particular, the documents contain information about offshore companies connected with their families and associates of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Petro Poroshenko Ukraine and Vladimir Putin Russia.
according to the “Panamanian dossier” commercial bank “Russia” was used in a potential money laundering scheme, which may have been involved a number of close friends of the president of Russia.
Shortly after the publication of documents Attorney General’s office announced plans to check information about offshore accounts, which may hold the Russians.
Putin himself has called the publication “Panamanian documents” an attempt to destabilize the situation in the country.
