PANAMA CITY — A judge has acquitted 28 people accused of money laundering in an international case known as the Panama Papers, including the co-founder of a law firm that authorities say was at the center of a conspiracy to hide money linked to illegal activities.
Jürgen Mossack founded Mossack & Fonseca with then associate Ramón Fonseca, who died in May. Mossack was acquitted on Friday along with others after a Panamanian judge found that the evidence against Mossack didn't comply with the chain of custody after authorities raided the office of the now-defunct firm.
'We feel satisfied in the midst of mixed emotions because many lives were affected along the way,' Guillermina Mc Donald, who was the defense attorney for Mossack and Fonseca, told The Associated Press.Her firm also represented 80 percent of the accused firm's collaborators.Judge Balaoisa Marquínez had decided to combine the Panama Papers case with another known as 'Operation Car Wash,' a major anti-corruption investigation that began in Brazil.
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