2016-06-15nytimes.com

An employee of the law firm at the center of the leaks of the Panama Papers, which have revealed offshore wealth held in secretive accounts worldwide, has been arrested here on charges of data theft, one of the employee's lawyers, Romain Jordan, said on Wednesday.

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Asked about the report, a spokesman for Claudio Mascotto, the chief prosecutor in Geneva, declined to comment. The spokesman said only that the office had opened a criminal investigation based on a complaint filed by Mossack Fonseca. The employee's name was not made public, and the lawyer did not give his client's name or provide any detail about him.

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Bastian Obermayer, an investigative reporter at Süddeutsche Zeitung who received the original leak on the Panama Papers, said on Wednesday that the man arrested in Geneva was not his source who leaked the documents, but left open the possibility that there might be more than one person behind the leaks.



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