This Friday, a Panamanian court acquitted the 28 accused of ‘Panama Papers’ casethe historic leak of documents from the extinct Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonsecawhich linked several personalities from around the world to money laundering, reported the Judicial Body (OJ).
“The judge Second Liquidator of Criminal Cases, Baloísa Marquínez (…), acquitted 28 people accused of the crime Against the Economic Order in the form of Money Laundering, in the accumulated cases of the cases called ‘Panama Papers’ and ‘Lava Jato’, followed by the law firm Mossack Fonseca and its collaborators, as well as citizens of German nationality”The Judiciary detailed this in a statement.
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In the sentence, the judge emphasizes that in the ‘Panama Papers’ It was determined that the evidence collected on Mossack Fonseca’s servers, with electronic evidence that contributed to the paper process, “they did not comply with the chain of custody, as well as the principles governing digital evidence, mainly because they lacked hash values (mathematical algorithm to transform blocks of data) that would allow for certainty of their authenticity and integrity”.
Furthermore, the judge concluded that “the rest of the evidence was not sufficient and conclusive to determine the criminal responsibility of the accused, either for the funds originating from Germany or from Argentina”.
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Judge Marquínez ordered the “extinction of criminal action due to the death of one of those identified in this process”. It’s about the lawyer Ramón Fonseca Moradirector and co-founder of the law firm Mossack and Fonsecawho died on May 9 due to complicated pneumonia, according to his family.
Likewise, he ordered the lifting of personal and real precautionary measures against all defendants, including German lawyer Jürgen Mossack, founding partner of the firm together with Fonseca Mora. Mossack was acquitted of all charges.
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In case Car washthe error indicates that “it was not possible to determine the entry of money of illicit origin, originating from Brazil, into the Panamanian financial system with the purpose of hiding, disguising, disguising or helping to escape the legal consequences of the previous crime”.
The ‘Lava Jato’ plot in Brazil was accumulated in the same process as the case ‘Panama Papers’given the affinity in relation to the defendants and the facts investigated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
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The investigation into this case began in 2016. “due to news related to the ‘Lava Jato’ operation in Brazil, which allegedly linked a law firm in Panama dedicated to the creation of corporations”as the Judiciary recalled.
In turn, the ruling of the ‘Panama Papers’ It all started on April 8, eight years after the historic leak of documents from the now-defunct Panamanian law firm. Mossack Fonsecawhich linked personalities from all over the world to money laundering.
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The trial for ‘Panama Papers’ The trial was concluded on April 19, but the judge took advantage of the 30-day period provided for by law to issue the verdict in this case investigated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The accumulated case consists of 837 volumes and more than 427 thousand pages.
Source: Elcomercio
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