 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.Mossack Fonseca was linked to a corruption investigation (Operation Car Wash) in Brazil into bribes paid to politicians by companies doing business with the state-run oil company, Petrobras.