Lawyers for Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca claimed in a federal court in Connecticut that The Laundromat, which has been released on Netflix, defames them.

They sought an injunction preventing distribution of the Steven Soderbergh film but were refused by Judge Janet Bond Arterton, who transferred the case to California, finding her court lacked jurisdiction.

“This lawsuit was a frivolous legal stunt designed to censor creative expression,” Netflix said in a statement.

“Steven Soderbergh’s film tells an important story about the exploitation of innocent people and the misuse of the world’s financial system. Fortunately, you can now watch ‘The Laundromat’ — the film that Mossack and Fonesca tried to censor — on Netflix.”

The film is based on the book Secrecy World and the story of how an anonymous whistleblower leaked 11.5 million documents from Mossack Fonseca, which shut down its operations last year and faces a number of criminal inquiries.

The firm’s attorney said that the publicity from the film could taint a jury pool if charges are ever brought against the firm in the US.