In the hearing, yesterday, judge Baloisa Marquinez, who is in charge of the process, accepted for extraordinary evaluation evidences from some defense lawyers, who also appealed to the arguments of the judicial resolution that in the first instance ordered the total dismissal.

Thirty-two people will be charged with the crime of money laundering in a hearing to be held until July 7, among them the founders of the extinct law firm Mossack Fonseca, Ramón Fonseca and Jürgen Mossack.

This case is related to an investigation that began in 2016, as a result of journalistic reports, originating in the Lava Jato operation in Brazil, which linked a law office in Panama with the creation of corporations, whose purpose was the mobilization of illegal funds.

The Lava Jato case involved the extinct law firm Mossack Fonseca, main source of the Panama Papers scandal.

The firm Mossack Fonseca announced on March 14, 2018 the total closure of its worldwide operations, as well as the liquidation of employees.

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