A Panamanian court has acquitted 28 defendants in the Panama Papers case, a leak of documents from a law firm that linked individuals around the world to a vast tax evasion system.
Judge Baloysa Marquinez acquitted those accused of a crime against the economic order in the form of money laundering linked to the now-defunct law firm Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian justice system said in a statement on Friday.
The judge ruled that the evidence collected on Mossack Fonseca’s servers “does not comply with the chain of custody as well as the principles governing digital evidence, mainly due to the lack of hash values.” [algoritmo matemático para transformar blocos de dados] This would allow us to be confident in its authenticity and integrity.”
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Source: CM Jornal
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