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Panama Papers Leak Casts Light on a Law Firm Founded on Secrecy

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Semple, Ahmed and Lipton provide this NYT story on Mossack Fonseca, the secretive Panamanian law firm that set up offshore tax havens for wealthy individuals around the world, the focus of the investigation called the Panama Papers Scandal. It provides an account of the history of Mr. Mossack, whose father was in the Nazi Waffen SS, and immigrated to Panama with his family after 1948. His partner is the Panamanian novelist, and advisor to the Varela government in Panama, Mr. Fonseca.

Mossack Fonseca- the law firm setting up offshore tax havens founded by German immigrant Mossack and Mr. Fonseca, a Panamanian novelist

04/06/2016

The NYT story on the secretive law firm of Mossack Fonseca by Semple, Ahmed and Lipton, provides a detailed account about the founders and their history, and the history of Panama as a capital for setting up this kind of offshore tax havens. Unlike the other tax havens, such as the British Virgin Islands, Panama has been relatively free of regulation for most of its history.

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