2023-07-18 20:08:57
The actress with five César, Isabelle Adjani, known for her roles in “The Deadly 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 hid “a donation of two million euros from Diagna NDiaye, under cover of a loan, which enabled him to evade 1.2 million euros in transfer duties” and she is fictitiously domiciled in Portugal, thus allowing her to“evading €236,000 in income tax”a judicial source told 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 “transit through an American bank account not declared to the tax authorities the sum of €119,000 from an offshore company with an unknown beneficial owner and intended for an 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 Mossack firm Fonseca and registered in July 2014.
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.
If 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.
A leading actress of the 1980s and 1990s, Isabelle Adjani marked the cinema by playing fragile and passionate heroines, from Adèle H. to Queen Margot via Eliane in “The Deadly 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”.
In another legal proceeding, Isabelle Adjani was indicted in October 2020 for fraud after the complaint of a former consultant who accuses her of having sent her false proof of reimbursement of the € 157,000 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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