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Ramon Fonseca also said the release of more than 11.5 million
company emails was the result of hacking from a computer
overseas rather than an inside job and that he knew which
country the hacker attack had come from but was not allowed to
disclose it. He had told Reuters on Tuesday the firm was a
victim of a hack from outside.
"We're the ones who have filed a complaint with the
authorities," Fonseca told Bild newspaper's Saturday edition.
"Every time there's something in the newspapers, the authorities
announce they'll launch investigations. We're fully cooperating
but we haven't been contacted by anyone yet."
Panama said on Wednesday that an independent commission would
review the country's financial practices following the leak of
information that has embarrassed a clutch of world leaders and
forced Iceland's prime minister to resign.
Fonseca, who was a senior government official in Panama until
March, said "thousands of lawyers around the world" were doing
the same "completely legal" work as Mossack Fonseca, which
specializes in setting up offshore companies.
Most of the offshore firms are in jurisdictions other than
Panama, including Britain, the United States and the British
Virgin Islands, Fonseca said.
"So why us? We see it like the biblical story of David and
Goliath. Everyone has the right to privacy. Perhaps God chose us
to fight for this fundamental human right or perhaps I'm
mistaken," he added.
(Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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