One of the founders of the Panamanian operator offshore Mossack Fonseca Ramon Fonseca said that journalists “out of context” information that was obtained from the e-mails of the company and became the basis for a large-scale investigation against dozens of prominent world figures, reports Reuters.
He added that the letters were “misinterpreted” and a large-scale investigation -. «witch hunt»
The Panamanian organization’s headquarters 63 years Fonseca said that creating offshore structures Mossack Fonseca acted within the law.
According to the businessman, without any documents were destroyed. He also said in an interview that the company “did not help anyone evade taxes or launder money».
In addition, Ramon Fonseca called the organization a victim of “hacking from abroad».
One of the founders Mossack Fonseca said that the company employs about 500 employees, 300 of them – in Panama. The structure of the law firm, including part of its work abroad, he refused to name.
Fonseca noted that create offshore costs from $ 700 to $ 1,000, but a significant amount of that money goes to the state. For 40 years the company has opened about 250 thousand. Companies.
Earlier it was reported that in Lithuania revealed transit funds offshore Roldugina across the country.
«Panamanian documents”, a large-scale investigation into the millions of documents OCCRP forces , ICIJ and journalists from more than one hundred publications around the world has led to consequences in the world: the Prime Minister of Iceland on background ‘offshore scandal’ has resigned, UK, Netherlands, USA, Austria, Germany, India and Ukraine carry out checks on published facts. In turn, Russia denies any involvement of its officials and deputies to the offshore companies, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called “invented” information about offshore investigation and said that the Kremlin is not necessary to respond to such publication.
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