On the ‘Panama Leaks’ scandal that came out three years ago, the online streaming company ‘Netflix’, which produced the film, was sued.
The Panamanian law firm Mosaic Fonseca has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, calling the scenes shown in the film false.
It should be noted that the legal entity of offshore companies called ‘Mosaic Fonseca’ belonged to ‘Panama’ which helped the world’s richest people to protect them from paying taxes by creating offshore companies.
On behalf of the same organization, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, Benazir Bhutto, Russian President Vladimir Putin, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister of Iceland, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and many of the richest and most powerful people have been banned. Provided legal assistance in setting up Shor companies.
These individuals avoided paying taxes by setting up offshore companies, according to the leaked 2.6 terabytes of documents from Mosaic Fansica’s private database, which was investigated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in collaboration with a German newspaper.
Dozens of journalists from around the world participated in the Panama Leaks investigation and the names of around 500 people from Pakistan were exposed in this scandal. Mosaic Fonseca was closed in 2018 after the world-shaking Panama scandal came to light.
Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified by the Supreme Court on July 28, 2017 for being named in the same scandal. Now the web streaming company ‘Netflix’ is releasing a film on the ‘Panama Leaks’ scandal that has shocked the world, in which the same scandal has been shown.
The Netflix movie ‘The Laundromat’ features the main characters of Mosaic Fonseca’s law firm. The film features German lawyer Jürgen Mozic, who founded the same firm, and Panamanian lawyer Ramon Fonseca.
The film shows how the firm created by these two lawyers provides services to the world’s richest and most powerful people by setting up offshore companies to avoid taxes. The released trailer of the film shows both the heads of ‘Mosaic Fansica’ in very pleasant roles serving people across the globe.
The trailer also shows how a worldwide scandal erupts after the law firm’s documents are leaked. In the trailer, it is shown that there is widespread corruption due to the services of ‘Mosaic Fansica’ around the world.
After the trailer of the film was released, now the same company ‘Mosaic Fansica’ filed a case against ‘Netflix’ in the US court. Actors Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas play Mosaic Fonseca’s lawyers in the film.
According to the news agency “Reuters”, the two heads of “Mosaic Fansica” declared all the scenes shown in the film based on lies in a 42-page document. Both the lawyers of the law firm have requested to stop the release of the film in a petition submitted to the court.
In a petition filed in the US state of Connecticut, the heads of ‘Mosaic Fansica’ also called the film against reality. However, on the other hand, till now ‘Netflix’ has not given any statement on the application filed against it, nor has the court issued any order in this regard.
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2024-08-13 21:08:29
