Criminal charges unsealed in Panama Papers leak
U.S. prosecutors this week unsealed an indictment revealing criminal charges brought against four individuals for their alleged roles in a decades-long criminal scheme perpetrated by Panama-headquartered law firm Mossack Fonseca and related entities, the first charges brought in the United States connected to the Panama Papers leak.
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