Djibril Cissé tried in Bastia for money laundering-tax fraud

2024-09-11 22:06:19

Former French football captain, Djibril Cissé, was tried on Wednesday in his absence for money laundering fraud in Bastia where a one-year prison sentence was suspended and a 100,000 euro fine was required. The judgment will be made on November 13 by the Bastia criminal court. The 43-year-old former player is specifically suspected of money laundering, tax fraud, misuse of company assets and removal of accounting entries. Bastia’s lawyer, Jean-Philippe Navarre, asked for an exemption for the acts of tax fraud initially targeted by the prosecution. A simple joint stock company (SASU) located in Furiani (Haute-Corse), the residence in Corsica of the former Sporting Club de Bastia footballer, is in the sights. While the company was placed in compulsory liquidation in 2020, the current account associated with it has a debt of 550,000 euros, which is, according to the prosecution, a misappropriation of the company’s assets. The investigation admits that he did not declare this sum to the tax administration, which is a description of being a tax fraud: “He put money in his bank accounts,” argued the lawyer.
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