Venezuela orders accounts frozen
Venezuela's chief prosecutor has ordered banks to freeze the accounts of people the country is investigating in connection with leaked documents that originated with a Panama-based law firm that helps set up secretive offshore bank accounts and shell companies.
Public prosecutor Luisa Ortega told the television station Globovision on Monday that the government is considering issuing arrest warrants for people named in the Panama Papers leak. She didn't say who might be affected.
Venezuelans whose names have appeared in connection to the leak include a former top military officer, a former state oil company official and a security official who worked at the presidential palace during the administration of the late President Hugo Chávez.
President Nicolas Maduro asked for Ortega's investigation last week.
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