Mossack Fonseca lodges criminal complaint over Panama Papers

A founder of the law firm at the centre of revelations into the offshore wealth of world leaders, criminals and others – disclosed in a cache of 11.5 million documents – has said the firm was hacked.

Ramon Fonseca, of Panamanian firm Mossack Fonseca, has lodged a criminal complaint with prosecutors over the data breach.

The documents revealed clients who used the firm to establish offshore companies for the protection of their assets, including the Prime Minister, David Cameron’s late father, whose investment fund paid no tax in the UK for 30 years.

Mr Fonseca said that “nobody is talking of the hack, and that is the only crime that has been committed”.

He told AFP: “We have lodged a complaint. We have a technical report that we were hacked by servers abroad.

“We don’t understand. The world is already accepting that privacy is not a human right.”

The documents, amounting to 2.6 terabytes and spanning a period from the 1970s to 2015, were leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung – part of the Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

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