The two founders of the law firm Mossack Fonseca, accused of money laundering in the international tax evasion scandal revealed in 2016 by the “Panama Papers” were sentenced to 12 years in prison last Wednesday.

The prosecutor in charge of the fight against organized crime, Isis Soto announced that the two defendants Jürgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca “received and transferred funds derived from illicit activities in Germany and Argentina”. According to him, “the two defendants also “concealed, covered up and provided false information to banking entities, to open accounts and conceal the ownership of assets.” The two founders of the study are responsible for having facilitated, through the Panamanian firm, the creation of opaque companies in which executives of the German multinational Siemens deposited millions of euros outside the company's real accounts

Isis Soto also called on Wednesday for the conviction of 24 other defendants, mainly former employees of the company, and for the acquitting of three others.