Mossack Fonseca unequivocally hacked

THE MOSSACK FONSECA law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal that rocked governments  and financial centres around the world has the “certainty” that it was the victim of a “highly professional and well-planned information theft” according to a lawyer,

Elías Solano, The Panamanian lawyer who reported last year’s “hacking” of Mossack Fonseca’s database, told Efe  news agency that the investigation “carried out by a prosecutor demonstrates conclusively that the crime was unequivocally executed from outside the country “to extract 11.5 million documents”.

He said that the judicial investigation is suspended, at the request of the Attorney General’s Office, “pending legal assistance requested from several countries to corroborate the information” collected by the Panamanian authorities and “finally, the person or persons who executed this planned operation “.

The lawyer  also asked the Public Prosecutor, unsuccessfully, to cite some foreign journalists who were in the country in the days before the April 3, 2016 publication of the papers  so that “at least” they explained how they had obtained information from his confidential file reports El Siglo.

Lawyers Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca Mora have been released on bail since April.