The office of the law firm Mossack Fonseca
in a search of the branch of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca El Salvador police seized documents and computers. The documents of this company was founded Posted on April 3 Investigations of the global network of offshore companies
Authorities in El Salvador Friday, April 8, raided the local branch of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which happened in the center of the scandal associated with the publication international investigation of the offshore, reports Reuters referring to the country’s prosecutor general’s office.
During the search were confiscated documents and a large number of computers, the Prosecutor General said the country’s Douglas Melendez, who personally oversaw the operation. According to him, the day before the searches of employees of the company was removed from the entrance sign of the company. They explained that the company is moving.
The Attorney General said that the seven employees of the branch questioned, but none of them had been detained. “At the moment we can not talk about the crime. All that we can do – to carry out our work “, – said Melendez, adding that the government will review the confiscated documents concerning possible violations of financial and criminal law
3 April the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and. Center for the study of corruption and organized crime (OCCRP) published an investigation dedicated to the global network of offshore companies.
The investigation is based on documents Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. About a year ago the unknown gave them to the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung, refusing to give his name.
According to the authors of the investigation, we are talking about roughly 11.5 million different kinds of documents that reveal the extent of the “shadow economy”, which brings together leading leading politicians, businessmen and “celebrity”. Search for and study of these materials more than a year engaged members of ICIJ, the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung and dozens of other publications. Just work with produced documents was attended by over 370 journalists from 76 countries around the world.
The investigation includes data on transactions and offshore 12 current and former world leaders. In addition, the documents contain data on 128 politicians and public persons and 29 billionaires from the Forbes list.
In addition, ICIJ argue that people “out of the inner circle,” Russian President Vladimir Putin was transferred through offshore companies at least $ 2 billion. The offshore company also found associated with the families of 12 Russian officials, including Alexei Ulyukayev and Dmitry Peskov.
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