Panamanian court acquitted 28 accused for him The case of the Panama Papers historical leak of documents from defunct Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which linked various individuals from around the world to laundering of moneyThis was announced by the Office of the Judiciary (OJ).

“The second liquidator of criminal cases, Judge Baloisa Marquines (…) acquitted 28 people accused of crimes against the economic order in the form of money laundering, in a series of cases called “Panama Papers” and “Lava Jato” They are followed by the law firm Mossack Fonseca and its employees, as well as citizens of German nationality,” the OIJ clarified.

In the ruling, the judge points out that the Panama Papers established that collected evidence on Mossack Fonseca servers, with electronic evidence that was provided to the process in paper format,”they didn’t follow the chain of custodyas well as the principles that govern digital proof, mainly due to the lack of “hash values” (a mathematical algorithm for transforming blocks of data) that would allow us to be sure of its authenticity and integrity.”

In addition, the judge concluded that “the remainder of the evidence was not sufficient and convincing to determine the criminal liability of the accused for both the funds coming from Germany and from Argentina.”

Marquines ordered “the criminal case to be dismissed due to the death of one of the persons identified in this process.”

This is lawyer Ramon Fonseca Mora, head and co-founder of the firm Mossack & Fonseca, who died on May 9 from complicated pneumonia, they said. EFE their families.

In addition, he ordered lifting personal precautions and the actual damages that fall on the shoulders of all the defendants, including German lawyer Jurgen Mossack, a founding partner of the firm with Fonseca Mora.

Mossack was cleared of all charges.

German lawyer Jurgen Mossack, a founding partner of the firm with Fonseca Mora. Photo: Reuters

If Lava Yato, The resolution states that “income from illegal sources could not be determined, who entered the Panamanian financial system from Brazil for the purpose of concealing, hiding, disguising or assisting in the evasion of the legal consequences of a previous crime.”

The Lava Jato story in Brazil was compiled in the same file as the Panama Papers case, given the proximity of the accused and the facts investigated by the prosecution.

The investigation into this case began in 2016 “in connection with news events related to Operation Lava Jato in Brazil, which allegedly connected a law firm in Panama involved in the creation of public limited liability companies,” as recalled by the judiciary.

In turn, the trial in the Panama Papers case began on April 8. Eight years after historic document leak about the non-existent Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which linked people from all over the world to money laundering.

Ramon Fonseca Mora, chairman and co-founder of the firm Mossack & Fonseca, died on May 9.

The Panama Papers trial ended on April 19, but the judge took the 30-day legal deadline to issue a verdict in the case, which was investigated by the Justice Department.

The accumulated process consists of 837 volumes and more than 427 thousand pages. (EFE)