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Panama Papers: Court acquits all 28 charged with money laundering (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

After an extended period of deliberation, the judge said evidence collected from Mossack Fonseca's servers had not been gathered in line with due process and dropped all criminal charges against the defendants.

"they are guilty but we shouldn't have found out so we'll let them off scot free"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

This is probably the right legal process as much as it sucks. If this wasn't the rule, all needs for warrants would be unnecessary.