Panamá Papers: President Macri's Legal & Technical Secretary acted as intermediary in his offshoring

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Information recently uncovered as part of the Panama Papers scandal that has embroiled Argentine President Mauricio Macri has now revealed that the Legal and Technical Secretary to the President, Pablo Clusellas, acted for 10 years as the broker between Macri and the Panamanian corporate law firm at the center of the scandal, Mossack Fonseca.

The Buenos Aires law firm in which Clusellas was a partner from 1999 to 2009 (Romero, Zapiola, Clusellas & Monpelat) appears listed in the Panama Papers leak as an "intermediary" between Mossack Fonseca and the Argentine owners of numerous offshore shell companies - including the Macri family's Sinosocma SA. Clusellas organized the legal and accounting structure of these offshore investments and even served in the Sinoscoma board of directors as recently as 2006.

Clusellas, a personal friend of President Macri since they were both children, officially left the law firm when Macri appointed him Legal and Technical Secretary to the Mayor of Buenos Aires upon taking office in 2007. The law firm's own public records, however, show that Clusellas remained a partner as late as 2009. His own asset declaration from 2014 show, moreover, that he retained a 1% share in the law firm.

Mossack Fonseca documents prove that lawyers from the disgraced Panamanian firm, which specializes in creating offshore shell companies for clients around the world, first visited Clusellas in his Buenos Aires office May 4, 1999. The Panamanian lawyers, per leaked documents, "presented new services, information, and techniques (Clusellas) did not know about, despite having great knowledge in this area himself."

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[Judi Lynn]

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