April 13 2016
Prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm Tuesday, looking for evidence of money laundering and financing of terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients.
Half a dozen police officers set up a perimeter around the offices while prosecutors searched inside for documents. After news reports based on a trove of documents from the firm began emerging more than a week ago, Panama’s government had said it would investigate.
The 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.”