 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.