Panama's Public Ministry has the legal authority to investigate Ramon Fonseca Mora, president of the Panamanian Party leader and chief minister of President Juan Carlos Varela, so consider jurists consulted by Panama America, following allegations against the subsidiary in Brazil his law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co.
Even the National Assembly president, Ruben De Leon, reacted to the subject himself after concluding that the "responsible for these accusations should show up".
"We endorse a Public Ministry investigation," De Leon said of the role to be played by the Panamanian authorities to these allegations.
The allegations were made by the prosecutor of Brazil, Carlos Fernando Dos Santos Lima, at a press conference, accusing him directly to the firm Mossack Fonseca & Co., to create corporations in Panama to divert money offshore type product acts corruption in Brazil.
These allegations were corroborated by the court to which he has had to give control to the process, which acknowledges that there is evidence to realize the existence of a scheme of money laundering created by the law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co and keeps regarding real estate companies in Panama.
Attorney Dos Santos Lima explained that the operation is "Lava Jato" which ensures that the firm incorporated in Panama a company from which funds were diverted Brazilian state after contracts were made with a company that has built great works in this South American country and in Panama.
Silvio Guerra, lawyer, believes that should be investigated by law in Panama this case, after the direct accusations that are made to domestic companies.
Guerra said that although this is an investigation that originates in another country legally exist the territoriality principle which gives the jurisdiction to instruction Panamanian officials to launch an investigation into the serious allegations that the attorney made Brazilian.
Local media replicated the press conference the Brazilian attorney, in which he described the signing Mosak Fonseca Co. to be "a big washing money" linked in other cases of high-profile corruption in Brazil, to which they are being following up.
Guerra said that with the publication appeared in print yesterday, Thursday, January 28, is sufficient to initiate an investigation by the Panamanian judicial authorities.
He explained what is known as the crime news, it is that which is the basis for an investigation and determine whether there are grounds to prosecute criminal proceedings in the aforementioned political leader and official.
The lawyer said there is already a precedent in the Panamanian legal system in this regard, in which prosecutors from other countries have pointed to the participation of nationals in corruption, and the Panamanian authorities have made inquiries.
Yesterday the international cable news conference echoed the attorney Carlos Fernando Dos Santos Lima, who also referred to the arrest of two people who are closely linked with the aforementioned law firm did.
The prosecutor, in the press, these investigations mentioned in the name of Maria Mercedes Riano, who represents the firm Mossack Fonseca & Co. in Brazil.
The official spoke in print of the town and denied all these accusations.
However, Ramon Fonseca Mora in his Twitter posted a press release from the law firm in which it recognizes the existence of criminal proceedings in Brazil has been called to testify on behalf of the firm in this country southern.
In the statement of the law firm it ensures that representatives of the company have been required only to provide information and not as a defendant in this process.
But Fonseca Mora does not deny that the firm has made such powerful companies to establish offshore companies in the real estate market.
Who it was the former vice president also reacted Republic, Arturo Vallarino, who joined the view that the Attorney General must act and investigate.
According to Vallarino, this is not the first time the firm Ramón Fonseca Mora become embroiled in an international money laundering scandal.
Julio Berrios, international lawyer, Silvio Guerra match considering that the Attorney General of the Nation, Kenya Porcell must investigate ex officio by the legal form of the crime news.
Berrios believes that we are facing a serious charge by the fact that who makes the claims is the highest authority of research in Brazil.
Despite these accusations, so far there has been no official communication from the Public Prosecutor regarding the initiation of a summary of this new scandal linking an official of President Juan Carlos Varela.
Mossack Fonseca & Co. is considered one of the largest law firms in Panama, which specializes in the creation of local corporations and foreign companies known as offshore.
Cifras
40 años de trayectoria tiene la empresa Mosak Fonseca, indica en su comunicado.
4 empresas pudieron haber utilizado para mover los fondos a Panamá.
Frase
- En otros casos en los que se han hecho investigaciones extraterritorialmente, el Ministerio Público ha hecho acopio y ha iniciado un proceso con base en la noticia crimen, es decir, de manera oficiosa. Silvio Guerra - Abogado y catedrático universitario.
