'Panama Papers' law office raided as world's tax officials huddle to assess fallout
Source: Fox News Latino
Authorities raided the law firm at the center of the "Panama Papers" scandal on Tuesday, as tax officials from around the world meet in Paris to discuss how to handle the fallout from the biggest document leak in whistle-blower history.
Organized crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm looking for evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients.
Soon after news reports based on the trove of documents began emerging more than a week ago, Panama's government had said it would investigate. A half dozen police officers set up a perimeter around the law firm's offices while prosecutors searched inside for documents.
The country's attorney general's office said in a statement that the objective of the raid was "to obtain documentation linked to the information published in news articles that establish the use of the firm in illicit activities." It said searches also were made at other subsidiaries of the firm in Panama and at the telephone company's computer support center.
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