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access to the headquarters of Mossack Fonseca on Tuesday in Panama city

After the revelations of hundreds of thousands of shell companies the prosecution has the firm Mossack Fonseca searches in Panama. It should be checked whether the company has been used for illegal activities, informed the public prosecutor newly established for organized crime on Tuesday.

According to media reports, the firm did not cooperate in the investigation. Mossack Fonseca however informed on Twitter: “We continue to cooperate with the authorities that perform in our Central investigation.” Previously, several branches of the firm had already been searched abroad

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the raid at the headquarters of the firm had gone “without incident or interference”, the report said. In addition, stores were searched. Offshore operations, as operates the Registry for their customers around the world, are not illegal per se. However, shell companies can be used for tax evasion or money laundering.

After a year of joint research dozens media had recently reported worldwide about 200,000 letterbox companies, where politicians, celebrities and athletes should have parked their assets. The company was reportedly founded in part by Mossack Fonseca. The Panamanian firm denies involvement in illegal transactions. The founders of the firm, Ramon Fonseca, affirmed on Saturday, only to have legal and customary international businesses operate.

                 
         
                 
                     
                                                                                                                             
                     
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The reports of the “Panama Papers” are based on documents from Mossack Fonseca. In the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” involved spearheaded the research, it was said that the 2.6 terabytes of data have been her leaked by an anonymous source.

The firm expects to be the victim of a hacker attack and has complaint made. On Monday, the prosecution had therefore sought in the offices of the company for evidence of a possible data theft

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