Ramón Fonseca Mora (born 14 July 1952) is a Panamanian novelist and lawyer, the co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, a former law firm based in Panama with more than 40 offices worldwide.
He was minister-counselor of Juan Carlos Varela, and president of the Panameñista Party until he was dismissed in March 2016, due to the Brazilian Operation Car Wash.
In 2016, the law firm he owned was raided by police on suspicion of money-laundering, bribery and corruption.
Fonseca and his partner Jürgen Mossack were arrested and jailed in February 2017.
They were initially refused bail because the court saw a flight risk, but were released in April 2017 after a judge ruled they had cooperated with the investigation and ordered them each to pay $500,000 in bail.
Numerous lawsuits including serious allegations of collusion with despotic regimes, mafia and global criminals are ongoing.
During the subsequent and on-going, international criminal investigation into the affairs of Mossack Fonseca, Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb.