May 04, 2016•Update: May 04, 2016
By Senabri Silvestre
SANTO DOMINGO, Dom Rep.
Argentina President Mauricio Macri on Tuesday said he is available for an investigation into his alleged involvement in an offshore company listed in the Panama Papers.
Speaking at a press conference, Macri asked for justice to work independently and for it to be precise during the probe.
"I am at the disposal of a judge to provide information. I have seen that he has asked Panama exhortations to clarify the information appeared in the media,” he said.
Macri made this statement after the federal judge Sebastián Casanello sent legal requests to judicial authorities in the Bahamas and Panama, asking for their cooperation with an investigation about Macri’s ties to offshore companies.
Casanello wants to determine if Macri was registered as a shareholder of the Bahamas-based Fleg Trading Ltd. company and of the Kagemusha firm based in Panama.
The information was discovered when millions of documents from the Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca were leaked to the media.
Macri had already admitted his participation as a director of the Fleg Trading Ltd., now defunct, but the president never declared his links to the company in sworn affidavits made as a public official.
He has said he was not legally obliged to disclose his connection with the offshore company.
"Judge has to do all the requirements necessary to confirm that what I said is true or not. It is to act in a country where justice works independently", he said.
