Founders Of Panama Papers Law Firm Arrested On Money Laundering Charges
Police in Panama arrested the founders of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, on money laundering charges Thursday after authorities raided the firm’s headquarters as part of investigations into Brazil’s largest-ever bribery scandal.
FEBRUARY 11, 2017
REPORTING BY
Will Fitzgibbon
Emilia Díaz-Struck
Michael Hudson
Police in Panama arrested the founders of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, on money laundering charges after authorities raided the firm’s headquarters as part of investigations into Brazil’s largest-ever bribery scandal.
The firm’s founding partners, Ramón Fonseca and Jürgen Mossack, were taken into police custody on Thursday, according to the men’s lawyer. Kenia Porcell, Panama’s attorney general, released a statement that said evidence gathered by her office indicated that the law firm was a potential “criminal organization” that concealed and removed evidence related to “illegal activity.”
Both Fonseca and Mossack are well-known in business and political circles in Panama. Fonseca is a former adviser to Panama’s president, Juan Varela, and Mossack served on Panama’s council on foreign relations from 2009 to 2014.
They have consistently denied any wrongdoing. Their law firm says that it is not at fault in cases in which offshore companies it set up for clients were later used for illegitimate purposes. The firm told ICIJ last year that it follows “both the letter and spirit of the law.”
More:
https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/20170210-mossfon-panama-arrests/
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I wonder if they have been convicted or what? 
Jurgen Mossack & Ramon Fonseca Mora: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Jurgen Mossack, left, and Ramon Fonseca Mora are the founders of the Panamanian firm
Mossack Fonseca.
A Panamanian-based law firm is at the center of one of the largest document leaks in history. Millions of files from the firm Mossack Fonseca were given to journalists after a hack of its servers last year, leading to an investigation that exposes the tax havens used by the world’s elite, from Russian President Vladimir Putin to soccer star Lionel Messi, along with many others.
The firm was founded more than 30 years ago by German-born Jurgen Mossack and Panamanian Ramon Fonseca Mora.
Here’s what you need to know about Mossack, Fonseca and their firm:
1. The German-Born Mossack Is the Son of a Waffen-SS Officer & Grew Up in Panama
Jurgen Mossack, one of the founders of the Mossack Fonseca law firm, was born in Fürth, in Bavaria, in 1949, according to a 2015 article in the German business newspaper Handelsblatt.
He moved with his family to Panama and grew up there, the newspaper says.
Mossack’s father served in Hitler’s Waffen-SS during World War II, according to the Panama Papers investigation. The elder Mossack also offered to spy for the U.S. government on “former Nazis turned Communist or unconverted Nazis cloaking themselves as Communists,” after the war, according to U.S. intelligence files obtained by the ICIJ.. He also offered to spy on Communist activity in Cuba, the files show.
Jurgen Mossack studied at the Santa Maria La Antigua University School of Law in Panama, graduating in 1973, according to his biography on the firm’s website. He also studied law in London.
More:
https://heavy.com/news/2016/04/jurgen-mossack-ramon-fonseca-mora-panama-papers-leaks-partners-documents-photos-firm-tax-haven-lawyers/
DU poster sandensea, a person who has thorough awareness of politics in Argentina has shared that the current right-wing "President" of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, is up to his gnarly eyebrows in this scandal, himself, along with his relatives, and associates.
But have you seen any updates? Have they gone to trial? I haven't seen anything since the whole story broke. 
