| In Panama Papers Case
Defendant Suggests No Money Moved Through
Wires As Motion Fest Begins
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video, Alamy
photos
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 29 – As the U.S. Panama
Papers prosecution of
accountant Richard Gaffey and
tax expatriate Harald Joachim
von der Goltz moved toward
trial, on May 29 disputes
about suppressing files seized
from the accountant's office
and documents obtained from
Panama, Germany and elsewhere
overseas came to the fore.
Judge
Richard M.
Berman of the
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York asked
whether the
lawyer for
initially lead
defendant
Ramses Owens,
sitting on the
side of his
courtroom,
even had the
right to make
arguments.
Owens has not
been arraigned
or appeared in
the case.
From Panama,
using J.
Iandolo Law of
13th Avenue,
Brooklyn,
Owens is
disputing the
use of his
mobile phone
records
obtained under
the US -
Panama Mutual
Assistance in
Criminal
Matters
Treaty.
Assistant US
Attorney Eun
Young Choi
argued that
some of the
US' request
for
information
from other
governments
are covered by
diplomatic
privilege. She
said, however,
that
information
from and about
Germany will
be made
available to
the defendants
on June 7.
Judge Berman
set a motion
schedule
running into
August. The
lawyer for von
der Goltz said
he may file a
motion to
dismiss the
wire fraud and
money
laundering
counts
claiming that
no money ever
move through
wires. The
case is USA v.
Owens, et al.,
18-cr-00693
(Berman).
Inner
City Press
readers may
remember that
Patrick Ho was
found not
guilty on only
one of the
eight UN
bribery
charges
against him in
December 2018,
Chad money
laundering -
because the
money moved in
a gift box, in
cash, and not
through wires.
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