Jürgen Mossack

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Jürgen Mossack (2009)

Jürgen Rolf Dieter Mossack (born March 20, 1948 in Fürth ) is a lawyer under Panamanian law of German origin and partner in the law firm Mossack Fonseca . His law firm became known worldwide in April 2016 through the so-called Panama Papers affair , which highlighted the activities of the offshore finance industry. The firm has helped more than 14,000 clients set up 214,488 companies in 21 offshore financial centers .

Life

Jürgen Mossack is the son of German parents. His father was a mechanical engineer, his mother a saleswoman. According to information from the ICIJ , his father was a member of the Waffen SS and is said to have later offered himself to the US foreign intelligence service CIA as a spy.

In the early 1960s, Jürgen Mossack emigrated with his parents from Germany to Panama as a child . There he went to school and then studied law at the Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua in Panama City . Mossack's family returned to Germany in the early 1970s.

After completing his bachelor's degree in 1973, he worked for law firms in Panama and London before setting up his own law firm, Jürgen Mossack Lawfirm, in Panama City in 1977 . Mossack's law firm specialized in mailbox companies . In 1986 he founded the law firm Mossack Fonseca with the Panamanian politician, lawyer and writer Ramón Fonseca Mora . Fonseca was an advisor to the head of state Juan Carlos Varela until 2015 .

Mossack is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) , STEP , Panama Bar Association and International Maritime Association . He is co-author of the book Reservation of Title and Security Transfer Abroad, published in 1980 by Deutscher Fachverlag . For reasons of confidentiality, the first edition of the book was published “without an author's name”.

In the 2019 film The Money Laundering , Mossack is portrayed by Gary Oldman .

Panama Papers

On April 3, 2016, various international media, in cooperation with the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), published a series of articles about clients that Mossack Fonseca helped set up and the financial constructs of some of the clients regarding tax havens . The articles were based on a data record from the law firm, which was leaked to the Süddeutsche Zeitung by a whistleblower , and further research. The law firm denied allegations that it was helping with money laundering and tax evasion in a television interview on April 3, 2016. It described the disclosure of internal documents as a " hack " and a "crime".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A German is the boss of the Mossack Fonseca offshore cartel , in: Focus Online from April 3, 2016
  2. ↑ Investigations into tax evasion are ongoing in Stuttgarter Nachrichten, April 4, 2016
  3. ↑ These are Jürgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca ; in: Welt Online from April 4, 2016
  4. ↑ Mossack Fonseca & Co founder comes from Fürth ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Mossack Fonseca & Co founder comes from Fürth ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in: Bayerischer Rundfunk from April 4, 2016
  5. ↑ Mossack Fonseca: “We were hacked. It is a crime ” ; in: Spiegel Online from April 4, 2016
  6. ↑ a b excerpt from the "chambersandpartners" portal ( memento from April 4, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ ISBN 978-3-8005-6911-3
  8. ↑ One Source, 400 Journalists: The History of the Panama Papers. April 3, 2016, accessed April 3, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Panama's public prosecutor initiates an investigation. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 4, 2016, Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Mossack, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mossack, Jürgen Rolf Dieter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and partner in the law firm Mossack Fonseca
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth