announced that given the leak he was resigning from Conarex. Mossack is a member of the International Bar Association, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, the Panama Bar Association; the International Maritime Association; and the Maritime National Association. Mossack's holdings, according to the files obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), include a teak plantation and other real estate, an executive helicopter, a yacht named Rex Maris and a collection of gold coins. Criminal investigations Panama Papers On 3 April 2016, leaked documents from the company's private archive, dubbed the Panama Papers, revealed detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. Mossack told the Wall Street Journal that the intermediary banks that his firm worked with — and who represent the final recipients of the shell companies — should have done better reviews of their clients: "Our brand needs to be protected. We feel the best way to protect the brand is by doing things ourselves and not rely on others." News stories in April 2016 established that the Panamanian consul in Frankfurt was using the Panama@mossfon.com email address and questioned whether he should be doing so. Mossack's brother Peter served as Honorary Consul of Panama in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from 2010 to 16 April 2016. Both Mossack and Fonseca were arrested in Panama in February 2017 and were released on bail two months later, after each paid US$500,000 in bail. According to court papers filed on 15 October 2019, Mossack and Fonseca "are the subjects of an FBI Investigation in the Southern District of New York" and are "defending criminal charges against them in Panama." On 20 October 2020, prosecutors in Cologne, Germany issued international arrest warrants for Mossack and Panamanian Ramón Fonseca. Charges against the two law partners include accessory to tax evasion and forming a criminal organization, with the firm noted as central to the investigation. Money laundering in Brazil Mossack Fonseca was linked to a corruption scandal in Brazil known as Operation Car Wash, which investigated bribes paid to politicians by companies doing business with the state-run oil company, Petrobras. Investigators began focusing on the law firm after finding an array of apartments in the names of relatives of an imprisoned politician, the New York Times reported. Personal life Mossack has one son and four daughters. Mossack is married to Leydelises Pérez de Mossack, herself