Ramón Fonseca Mora

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Ramón Fonseca Mora

Ramón Fonseca Mora (born July 14, 1952 in Panama City ) is a Panamanian novelist , lawyer and co-founder of the law firm Mossack Fonseca . Until the Panama Papers became known in March 2016, he was also an advisor to the Panamanian President and Vice-Chairman of the ruling Partido Panameñista .

Early years

Fonseca studied law and politics at the Universidad de Panamá  and the London School of Economics .

Career as a lawyer

In 1986 he founded the law firm Mossack Fonseca together with Jürgen Mossack . Mossack founded Jürgen Mossack Lawfirm in Panama City as early as 1977 .

Ramón Fonseca was the second vice-president of the Partido Panameñista , which is Panama's current president, Juan Carlos Varela . Ramón Fonseca was the president's closest confidante until the Panama Papers were announced.

In the 2019 film Money Laundering , Mora is portrayed by Antonio Banderas .

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 Mossack Fonseca's clients and their financial constructs in tax havens . The articles were based on a data set from the group that was leaked to the Süddeutsche Zeitung by a whistleblower . Fonseca denied allegations that the firm was helping with money laundering and tax evasion in a television interview on April 3, 2016. He described the disclosure of internal documents as a " hack " and a "crime".

Career as an author

Fonseca is an award-winning novelist. His detective novel La danza de las mariposas appeared in German translation in 2000 as The Dance of the Butterflies ; It is set in a fictional Central American country in which the military control society with the help of an esoteric circle.

Works

  • 1976: Las Cortes Internacionales de Justicia
  • 1977: Reflexiones de Derecho Judicial
  • 1985: Compañías Panameñas
  • 1988: Panamá, un viejo lugar bajo el sol
  • 1998: Soñar con la ciudad
  • 1994: La danza de las mariposas
  • 1996: La ventana abierta
  • 1995: La Isla de las Iguanas
  • 2000: 4 Mujeres vestidas de Negro
  • 2007: El Desenterrador
  • 2009: Ojitos de Ángel
  • 2012: Míster Politicus

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ramón Fonseca Mora: “Vengo a contar mi verdad”. La Estrella de Panamá, March 14, 2014, accessed April 4, 2014 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Ramón Fonseca Mora (1952). Retrieved April 4, 2016 (Spanish).
  3. ^ A b Mossack Fonseca & Co. had a problem in Vegas. on panamapapers.icij.org
  4. ^ Hans Leyendecker , Frederik Obermaier , Bastian Obermayer , Vanessa Wormer : Mossack Fonseca: The company. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 3, 2016, accessed April 4, 2016 .
  5. ↑ One Source, 400 Journalists: The History of the Panama Papers. April 3, 2016, accessed April 3, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Panama's public prosecutor initiates an investigation. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 4, 2016, Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Ramon Fonseca Mora: The dance of the butterflies at perlentaucher.de
personal data
SURNAME Fonseca Mora, Ramón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Panamanian novelist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Panama City