US prosecutors have got their first conviction in the Mossack Fonseca investigation, known to the world as the Panama Papers. The two principals of the now extinct company remain under house arrest in Panama.

Harald Joachim von der Goltz , a German accused in New York of electronic fraud, money laundering, tax evasion and other crimes arising from the investigation of the on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ  on )the activities of Mossack Fonseca , has announced his intention to plead guilty says a note signed on February 6 by the prosecutor of the South District Court of New York, Geoffrey S. Berman, and the head of the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery section of the Department of Justice, Deborah Connor, in which they inform Judge Richard M. Berman that the defendant Von Der Goltz - through his defense attorneys - expressed his intention to plead guilty at a hearing scheduled for February 18.

Van der Goltz is a German octogenarian, married to an American and based in Guatemala, who was a client of Ramses Owens, a former lawyer for the now extinct Mossack Fonseca.

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