The organizer of the leakage of information about Panama offshore companies asked for guarantees of protection.
An anonymous source who submitted the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung materials Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, issued a statement in which asks for guarantees of protection.
A letter published on the website panamapapers.icij.org.
The main motive of its decision to transfer “Panamanian archive” in the press the source, known as John DOE, called the desire to overcome income inequality and to bring to justice corrupt officials.
“Income inequality is one of the defining hallmarks of our time” — says the author of the letter.
Documents Mossack Fonseca, he said, showed “all the injustice” on which rests the work of the companies registered offshore, and the inaction of governments that allow the creation of such companies in “tax havens”.
“I decided to shed light Mossack & Fonseca, because I think that its founders, employees and customers should be responsible for their part in crimes, only some of which was made public,” writes the author.
The author of the leak at the same time said that a number of the world’s leading media and Wikileaks have missed the opportunity to access them stolen documents.
Just transfer the base from 11.5 million documents to the tax authorities of different countries the source is not going, but stated that he would like to cooperate with law enforcement authorities.
“But I would like to cooperate with law enforcement authorities to the extent to which it will be possible for me,” says John DOE.
In exchange for the cooperation he wants guarantees of judicial immunity.
“Acting within the law, the whistleblowers who reveal the unconditional abuse, whether they are insiders or external agents, deserve immunity from government prosecution,” said the author of the leak.
