(Paris) French film star Isabelle Adjani will go on trial in Paris on Thursday for tax fraud and money laundering. She is suspected of concealing a loan donation and of having a fictitious residence in Portugal, which she vigorously denies.
Published yesterday at 11:51 am.
His defense will ask for the trial to be postponed because the artist was unable to take the plane out of the United States due to an “acute illness certified by a New York doctor,” his lawyers told AFP.
The 68-year-old actress has been the subject of an investigation since 2016 following the Panama Papers.
She was named in the revelations by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) as the owner of a company in the British Virgin Islands.
The investigation did not reveal any crimes related to this offshore company, but revealed other suspicions that led to a summons to court by the financial prosecutor’s office.
First, 2 million euros (US$2.8 million) transferred by Mamadou Diagna NDiaye, an influential Senegalese businessman, president of the Senegalese National Olympic and Sports Committee and a member of the International Olympic Committee.
The actress is suspected of passing off a gift as a loan, which would have allowed her to avoid 1.2 million euros ($1.7 million) in transfer taxes.
“All elements of the file and the investigation make it possible to prove beyond doubt that our client benefited from a loan from a close friend in 2013,” assured her lawyers.
“This loan was the subject of a contract duly registered with the French tax administration when it was signed in 2013, as required by law. “The loan is now in an advanced stage of repayment,” they added.
Isabelle Adjani is also accused of having a fictitious residence in Portugal and thereby avoiding 236,000 euros ($340,000) in income tax.
“If in 2016 and 2017 there was a disagreement with the tax administration about the place of her tax residence,” the statement said, the actress “today has no tax debts, neither in France nor in Portugal, and has paid all her debts.” their defense.
Isabelle Adjani, the flagship actress of the 1980s and 1990s, has become less common on the big screen, but creates an event with each of her appearances in the cinema, theater or television.