2023-07-18 21:05:00
The actress will appear in court on October 19. She is accused of defrauding the tax administration in 2013, 2016 and 2017.
By MP with AFP The actress will also be tried for money laundering, acts committed between the United States and Portugal in 2014. © JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP Published on 07/18/2023 at 9:05 p.m.
The actress with five César, Isabelle Adjani, known for her roles in The killer summer (1983), Queen Margot (1994) or more recently Masquerade (2022), will be tried on October 19 by the Paris Criminal Court for tax evasion and money laundering. The 68-year-old actress and singer is accused of defrauding the tax administration in 2013, 2016 and 2017 through two mechanisms.
She concealed “a donation of two million euros from Diagna NDiaye, under cover of a loan, which enabled her to evade 1.2 million euros in transfer duties” and she fictitiously resided in Portugal, thus allowing him to “evade 236,000 euros in income tax”, a judicial source told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Tuesday.
Mamadou Diagna Ndiaye is an influential Senegalese businessman, president of the Senegalese National Olympic and Sports Committee (Cnoss) and member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He is also chairman of the organizing committee for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), scheduled for 2026 in Senegal.
The actress will also be tried for money laundering, acts committed between the United States and Portugal in 2014. She is suspected of having “passed through an American bank account not declared to the tax authorities the sum of 119,000 euros from an offshore company with an unknown beneficial owner and intended for investment in Portugal”, developed the same source. Contacted, his counsel did not respond immediately.
Fragile and passionate heroine
The investigation was opened in 2016 following the revelations of the “Panama papers” on a system of tax evasion via accounts in tax havens. Isabelle Adjani was cited as the holder of a company in the British Virgin Islands. The weekly L’Express had revealed the existence of this investigation carried out by the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses (Oclciff) around this offshore company Deckert Investments Limited, founded with the support of the firm Mossack Fonseca and registered in July 2014.
READ ALSOOffshore investments: what the Panama and Paradise Papers reported to the tax authoritiesIf the investigations did not make it possible to identify financial flows in connection with this offshore company, they did however reveal facts of tax evasion and money laundering, specified the judicial source. At the end of the preliminary investigation and after having studied the defense arguments, the national financial prosecutor’s office sent Isabelle Adjani a summons to appear before the Paris Criminal Court on October 19.
Leading actress of the 80s and 90s, Isabelle Adjani marked the cinema by playing fragile and passionate heroines, from Adèle H. to Queen Margot via Éliane in Killer summer. After a smashing debut, the actress with the five Césars is becoming rarer in the cinema, but creates the event at each of her performances in the cinema, at the theater or on television, as in the hit series Captain Marleau.
Another legal proceeding
Recently, it is by a return to the song that she made people talk about her: the interpreter of Pull marine, written by Gainsbourg 40 years ago, is preparing a second album for the end of the year. In the cinema, we saw her last year playing an actress nostalgic for her past success in Masquerade by Nicolas Bedos and a diva in Peter von Kant by Francois Ozon.
In another legal proceeding, Isabelle Adjani was indicted in October 2020 for fraud after the complaint of a former consultant who accused her of having sent her false proof of reimbursement of the 157,000 euros she owed him. The boss of the Bestimage paparazzi agency, “Mimi” Marchand, whose real name is Michèle Marchand, is also being prosecuted in this case for complicity in fraud.
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