Mossack Fonseca: Panama Papers law firm bosses refused bail
Mossack Fonseca: Panama Papers law firm bosses refused bail
Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca, who founded firm at centre of data leak, held as part of investigation into Lava Jato scandal
Juliette Garside
@JulietteGarside
Saturday 11 February 2017 09.30 EST
The heads of the law firm at the centre of the Panama Papers scandal have been refused bail following their arrest by police in Panama.
Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca were taken into custody on Thursday as part of an apparently coordinated swoop by prosecutors across Latin America investigating the massive Brazilian Lava Jato scandal.
Their defence lawyers have confirmed that they will remain in custody. Elías Solano, for Fonseca, dismissed evidence against his client as “weak” and said: “It does not seem too difficult to show the lack of foundation to these allegations.”
Mossack’s lawyer Marlene Guerra told reporters he had been refused bail because “there is a risk of flight from the country, due to the financial means of our clients”.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/11/panama-papers-mossack-fonseca-fonders-refused-bail