Third Mossack Fonseca man charged in money laundering probe

A THIRD  PERSON  from the Mossack Fonseca law firm was arrested  Friday, Feb,10 and taken in  for questioning,

Edison Ernesto Teano Rivera, who was in charge of dozens of bank accounts of the firm’s foreign clients, follows Thursday’s  questioning of  the founding partners of the firm, Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca, who remained in custody overnight.

All three  have been charged with money laundering.

Teano was identified by federal prosecutors in Brazil as being part of the structure of the Mossack Fonseca office in the South American country.

The lawyer was allegedly linked to a complex money laundering scheme involving Panama companies.

Specifically, the firm is noted to have provided legal instruments, such as corporations, through which members of the Workers’ Party of Brazil allegedly laundered large sums of money from bribes and other irregular acts.