Sacks of shredded files found in MF raid

BAGS FULL of shredded documents were seized by the Second Organized Crime Prosecutor after a Friday, April 22 raid on a house in Parque Lefevre, which served as an office of Panama law  firm Mossack Fonseca (MF).
“This property could contain documentation related to the management of Mossack Fonseca and several of the companies have been identified”Mossack Fonseca reiterates its readiness to cooperate with ongoing investigations, collaboration that in the particular case is being provided by the staff working in our warehouse,” concluded the statement.
in some outstanding way in the media for criminal acts,” said prosecutor Javier Caraballo, leading the investigations.
This is the second raid that the newly formed special prosecution team has made to this firm, after a global journalistic investigation revealed alleged irregularities in its operations.
The first operation was on Tuesday, April 12 and lasted about 27 hours. It was to make copies of digital signature files.
The house raided on Friday, April 22, carried no  identifying sign.

However, Caraballo was able to verify that it served as an operations center off the firm founded by Jürgen Mossack  Ramon Fonseca Mora .

In addition to the staff of the prosecution, also present during the raid were  Sara Montenegro, Director of Legal Affairs at  Mossack Fonseca, and lawyers Guillermina McDonald and Ramses Barrera.

In addition to the documents found inside the house firm, area residents showed La Prensa pieces of paper that in previous days had been discarded by employees of the law firm.

According to a Mossack Fonseca,statement  the bags contined aged documents for recycling “which is a usual practice in our company.

“Mossack Fonseca reiterates its readiness to cooperate with ongoing investigations, collaboration that in the particular case is being provided by the staff working in our warehouse,” concluded the statement.

The house in lane 1, Parque Lefevre, was until a few months ago the location of a  French School,
The  three hour raid led by prosecutor Javier Caraballo, began just after 2:00 p.m.
N eighbors, told  La Prensa that staff  had been seen for two days filling  dumpsters with big bags.
Torn papers found near the building showed content of emails, and details of  created companies.  The firm, meanwhile, said in a statement that the prosecution has all the documentation in the bags because it was seized in digitized form during the raid on Marbella servers.
Meanwhile, Caraballo said that the house would be guarded by the National Police. “Given the amount of documentation, we proceeded to secure the evidence,” he said.