Still skillfully keeping his whereabouts secret, the "whistleblower" in the case of releasing documents taken from a law firm in Panama has clearly explained his motive for acting as to avoid injustice.

Members of the SUNTRACS union scatter counterfeit money in front of the Mossack Fonseca law firm office in Panama City during a protest - Photo: Reuters

This mysterious character continued to use the familiar anonymous name John Doe to sign the long letter sent to the media. Through the letter, the mysterious character explained the motive for transferring more than ten million files to the world's media.

Hate injustice

The letter opens clearly: “Income inequality is one of the defining features of our time. It affects people everywhere in the world.

Over the years, the inequality gap has widened; politicians, scholars and activists have been unable to stop it, despite countless speeches, data analyses, protests and investigative reports.

Yet the unanswered questions remain: why is this happening and why now?

John Doe believes that the information contained in the “Panama Papers” provides a convincing answer to those questions: widespread and massive corruption!

The whistleblower also pointed out: “It is no coincidence that the answer came from a law firm. Far from being just a cog in the “wealth management” machine, Mossack Fonseca has used its influence to bend the law all over the world for criminal gain for decades.”

John Doe points out: Shell companies are often used for tax evasion purposes and as the “Panama Papers” have shown, although shell companies are legally established, their activities are often later linked to criminal activities that go beyond tax evasion.

That is a crime.

John Doe claimed that he “reported Mossack Fonseca because he felt that its founders, employees and clients needed to answer for their role in these crimes, although only some of them have been exposed to date. It will take years, even decades, to reveal the true extent of the law firm’s heinous acts.”

When the documents were partially debunked, some governments used the tactic of counter-propaganda to claim that the political motives behind the incident were those of the United States and the West. This time, John Doe explained: “One thing that needs to be made clear is that I do not work for, nor have I ever worked for, any government or intelligence agency.

My personal views are entirely mine, just as they were when I decided to share the data with the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ); sharing was not motivated by politics but simply because I understood the content well enough and felt the extent of the injustices contained therein.”

John Doe also pointed out that the regulations in the current financial management system are “scandalous and need to change”. It is these loopholes that have created conditions for law offices to “violate countless laws, they are fully aware of it and often repeat it many times”.

Through the media, they often cry out "I don't know" but the data shows that they know all the nooks and crannies of the law and deliberately exploit loopholes.

One piece of evidence is that we all know that Mossack Fonseca once pleaded guilty in a federal court in Nevada (USA), and we also know that the company's IT team tried to hide the lies.

John Doe believes in the value of the documents he has in his hands: “After all, the “Panama Papers” could lead to thousands of prosecutions if law enforcement agencies could access the documents and evaluate them.”

The mysterious whistleblower also claimed that since ICIJ and its partner media outlets had declared that they could not provide data to government agencies, “I myself can do it, within my capacity.”

Of course, this mysterious factor also does not forget to include a message: "Whistleblowers" should be exempted from prosecution!

According to tuoitre.vn