Mossack Fonseca partners behind bars

THE FOUNDING partners of the Mossack Fonseca law firm and a third lawyer are behind bars in the Police headquarters at Ancon, after raids on their homes and questioning by the Second Prosecutor against Organized Crime.  

Interrogation of Ramón Fonseca Mora and Jürgen Mossack, and Edison Teano had been suspended while raids were carried out on the homes and offices of the suspects, but resumed later and went on until 1.30 am on Saturday, Feb 11. They were questioned  about the alleged commission of the crime of money laundering.

Marlen Guerra, Mossack’s lawyer, said that the prosecution alleged “the possibility of escape” in decreeing  the pre-trial detention.

Elías Solano, attorney for Fonseca Mora said that the charges were very flimsy. “

The proceedings began at 8:30 p.m., after raids on the homes  of Fonseca Mora and lMossack, in Altos del Golf, San Francisco, and the Lawyer Sara Montenegro, in the building PH Office One, in Calle 50.

Montenegro worked until recently at Mossack Fonseca, but is now part of the Avant Garde Legal Alliance.

Officials inspected documents, computers and material relevant to  the investigation, linked to the Lava Jato operation, under scrutiny of the Brazilian authorities, after detecting a complex network of companies that were  used to conceal bribes.