[...]As early as 1986, Mossack had been tipped off that he was unwittingly acting as a director of a company that might be owned by those moving money for criminals involved in the heist. In an internal memo never intended to leave its Panamanian files, Mossack refers to the famoso robo del depósito de Matt Brink en Londres, and records how a well-meaning informant had telephoned to suggest Mossack should resign immediately from a front company the gangsters secretly controlled.
The company itself has not behaved illegally, Mossack noted, copying the memo to his partner, Ramón Fonseca. But it could be that the company invested money through bank accounts and properties that was illegitimately sourced. Despite the tipoff, Mossack did not resign immediately. Moreover, the lawyer became a trusted adviser to a Panamanian company controlled by Parry, the gangs offshore launderer-in-chief, who went into hiding in Spain.
The Brinks-Mat robbers and launderers included Mad Micky McAvoy, Brian The Colonel Robinson and Kenneth Noye, as well as Brian Reader, who at 76 was the ringleader in last years Hatton Garden heist, another record-breaking robbery. After the robbery, large amounts of bullion were crudely smelted by Noye and Reader at the formers home in Kent before being sent to a scrap gold dealer, John Goldfinger Palmer, near Bath, for resmelting and onward sale into the bullion market in Sheffield.[...]
