A U.S-based accountant who was charged alongside three others for their alleged roles in a decades-long criminal scheme perpetrated by Panama-headquartered law firm Mossack Fonseca and related entities has pleaded guilty.
On Friday, the Department of Justice announced Richard Gaffey pleaded guilty to wire and tax fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and other charges. U.S. prosecutors first unsealed the indictment in December 2018 against Gaffey and three others: Panamanian citizen Ramses Owens, who worked for Mossack Fonseca; German citizen Dirk Brauer, an investment manager for Mossfon Asset Management, an asset management company closely affiliated with Mossack Fonseca; and German citizen Harald Joachim von der Goltz, allegedly one of Mossack Fonseca’s U.S. taxpayer clients.
