Jürgen Mossack, 76, and Ramon Fonseca, 71, are accused of money laundering in the international tax evasion scandal revealed in 2016 by the "Panama Papers" Prosecutor in charge of the fight against organized crime, Isis Soto, asked the court for a 12-year maximum sentence against the two directors of the firm. 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 real accounts of the company.
These companies would have been used to hide money from the payment of commissions. The trial, scheduled to last until April 26, was originally scheduled to be held in 2021 but has been postponed several times for various reasons. The law firm would also have been used to keep money from a large fraud in Argentina, according to the prosecution.