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Panama Papers: Court acquits all 28 charged with money laundering (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (2 children)

After an extended period of deliberation, the judge said evidence collected from Mossack Fonseca's servers had not been gathered in line with due process and dropped all criminal charges against the defendants.

"they are guilty but we shouldn't have found out so we'll let them off scot free"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At that point shouldn't they be out collecting more evidence they can use in court?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

are you serious?

They say a paper trail detailing every account is inadmissible and testimony from close to 30 people isn't enough to convict and you think they should just dig around for more evidence?

So the trick to getting away with murder in panama is to make sure the smoking gun everyone saw you use is turned in to police by the person who calls in the crime without your permission.

[–] Esqplorer 8 points 4 months ago

This is probably the right legal process as much as it sucks. If this wasn't the rule, all needs for warrants would be unnecessary.