'No evidence' to take action against Panama Papers law firm: prosecutor

'No evidence' to take action against Panama Papers law firm: prosecutor

Panama's accessible prosecutor adjoin organized abomination said Wednesday there was no affirmation so far to yield activity adjoin the law close at the centermost of the Panama Papers scandal, afterward a arrest abiding 27 hours on its offices.

"Right now we don't accept any able affirmation acceptance us to yield any array of decision" adjoin the close Mossack Fonseca, the prosecutor, Javier Caraballo, told reporters.

He said the dive on its law offices, amid in Panama's cyberbanking district, had amorphous on Tuesday on the base of the account letters about the adopted businesses it created and in some cases ran for affluent audience about the world.

"The advice we accept calm is what will admittance us to accept affirmation to yield a accommodation after on," Caraballo said.

He said the analysis was complicated by the actuality that the close kept a lot of of its annal in agenda form, on added than 100 computer servers, and not on paper.

But he added that the close had "cooperated" with his investigators.

Nearly 40 years' account of athenaeum from Mossack Fonseca accept been pored over by hundreds of journalists about the apple aback getting accustomed to a German anchorman a year ago.

They accept resulted in the alleged Panama Papers: a alternation of letters advertisement politicians, celebrities and some abyss who acclimated Mossack Fonseca's casework to backing assets in adopted companies.

Mossack Fonseca's founders, attorneys Ramon Fonseca and Juergen Mossack, assert they did annihilation illegal.

They accent that adopted companies in themselves are not adulterous -- and they were not amenable for any activities their audience did with the entities.

Fonseca is a acquaintance to Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela and, until March, served as a arch adviser on his cabinet.

The Panama Papers revelations accept triggered a aggregation of probes about the apple as authorities attending for affirmation humans called in them ability accept committed tax fraud, money bed-making or added bent acts.

Varela's government is currently angry to anticipate added countries responding to the aspersion by putting Panama aback on all-embracing blacklists of nations that facilitate money bed-making or tax evasion.

Panama's arch accompaniment prosecutor, Kenia Porcell, beforehand Wednesday gave a account appointment in which he acclaimed that "in Panama, tax artifice does not aggregate a crime."

He said, however, that the country was extending "all all-important cooperation" to abode the scandal.

Porcell said he had been contacted by counterparts from Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica, but did not elaborate.

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