GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — An information technology worker at the Geneva office of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, has been arrested, Switzerland’s Le Temps newspaper reported Wednesday. The paper, citing a source close to the case, said the IT employee had been placed in provisional detention on suspicion of stealing a large haul of confidential documents. The spokesman for the Geneva’s prosecutor’s office, Henri Della Casa, told […]
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‘Panama papers’ reported to leak from the files of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca
(Reuters) – More than 11.5 million documents from the files of law firm Mossack Fonseca, based in the tax haven of Panama, were leaked on Sunday (April 3), revealing details of hundreds of thousands of clients. The documents are at the center of an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and more than 100 other news organizations around the globe. ICIJ is the international arm of the […]
