April 9, 2016
The founding partner of Mossack Fonseca, the controversial law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers leak, says the company has not yet been approached by any investigators, but a recent raid in El Salvador could be a sign that authorities may soon come calling at the firm’s headquarters in Panama City.
El Salvador’s attorney general’s office announced on Twitter that government agents seized numerous computers and documents during a Friday raid on Mossack Fonseca’s offices in the capital San Salvador. In a press conference, Attorney General Douglas Melendez said officials became suspicious after Mossack Fonseca removed the sign from its office door late on Thursday evening. Managers of the law firm’s El Salvador bureau contend they removed the sign because they were moving to a new office location.
“At this moment we cannot speak about (any) crimes; all we can do at this moment is our job,” said Melendez.