Panama Papers: French actress Isabelle Adjani will stand trial for tax evasion

Today, Tuesday, we learned from a judicial source that French actress Isabelle Adjani will be tried on October 19 before the Paris Criminal Court on charges of tax evasion and money laundering.

Isabelle Adjani disputes the charges against her and has committed no crimereact onFrance Press agency His attorneys, Mae-Julie Faryal-Saison and Cedric Labrousse, decried the lawsuits unfounded and disproportionate.

The 68-year-old multi-award winning actress has been accused of defrauding the tax authorities in 2013, 2016 and 2017 through two mechanisms.

She hid He donated 2 million euros ($2.95 million) from Diagna Ndiaye, under the cover of a loan, which enabled him to evade 1.2 million euros ($1.77 million) in a surge. She is a fictitious resident of Portugal, which allowed her to do soEvading 236,000 euros ($349,000) in income taxDetailed judicial source.

Mamadou Diagna Ndiaye Senegalese businessman, President of the Senegalese Olympic and Sports Committee (The central nervous system) and a member of the International Olympic Committee (International Olympic Committee).

The French tax authorities are trying by all means to reclassify this loan as a donation despite the repayment that has been made for yearsMs. Adjani’s lawyers denounced the allegations So they were surprised by this cruelty.

They said that Mr. Ndiaye is also the godfather of the actress’s son.

Money Laundering

The actress will also be prosecuted for money laundering, acts she allegedly committed between the United States and Portugal in 2014.

She is a suspect Transiting through a US bank account, not authorized to tax authorities, €119,000 ($175,000) from an offshore company with an unknown beneficial owner and intended for investment in PortugalThe same source revealed.

The investigation was opened in 2016 after discoveries from Panama Papers On the system of tax evasion through accounts in tax havens.

Isabelle Adjani has been cited as a BVI business owner.

If the investigations did not make it possible to reveal extraterritorial financial flows related to this company, they nevertheless revealed facts of tax evasion and money laundering, as determined by the judicial source.

Multi award winning actress

The only French actress to win the César Award for Best Actress five times, Isabelle Adjani made her stage debut before cinema marked her with fragile and emotional heroines, The story of Adele H. (by François Truffaut, in 1975, based on the life of Victor Hugo’s daughter) Queen Margot (Written by Patrick Chéroux in 1994, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas).

Recently, by going back to the song, I got people talking about it: subtitled navy jacketWritten 40 years ago by Serge Gainsbourg, it is the second album of the year.

In further legal action, in October 2020 she was indicted for fraud after a complaint from a former adviser accused her of forfeiting the €157,000 ($232,000) in compensation she owed him.