Actress Isabelle Adjani will be charged with tax evasion and money laundering in the Paris Criminal Court on October 19, a court source told us on Tuesday.
When contacted, his attorney did not immediately respond.
The 68-year-old multi-award-winning actress is accused of defrauding tax authorities through two mechanisms in 2013, 2016 and 2017. She hid “a €2 million donation from Diagna NDiaye under the guise of a loan that enabled her to avoid €1.2 million in transfer duties” and she was living fictitiously in Portugal, allowing him “€236,000 in income tax to be avoided “. , explained the court source.
Mamadou Diagna Ndiaye is a Senegalese businessman, President of the Senegalese National Olympic and Sports Committee (Cnoss) and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The actress is also facing charges of money laundering committed between the United States and Portugal in 2014. She is suspected of having “transferred the sum of 119,000 euros from an offshore company with a … through an American bank account that has not been reported to the tax authorities.” “Unknown beneficial owner and earmarked for investment in Portugal,” developed the same source .
The investigation was launched in 2016 after the Panama Papers uncovered a scheme of tax evasion via accounts in tax havens. Isabelle Adjani has been named as a business owner in the British Virgin Islands.
Although the investigations failed to identify financial flows related to this offshore company, they did bring to light facts of tax evasion and money laundering, according to the court source.
Isabelle Adjani, the leading actress of the 80s and 90s, left her mark on cinema by playing fragile and passionate heroines in “The Murderous Summer”, from Adèle H. to Queen Margot and Eliane.
More recently, it’s the return to the song she was talking about: the “Marine Pull” performer, who Gainsbourg wrote 40 years ago, is preparing a second album by the end of the year.
In another court case, Isabelle was charged with fraud in October 2020 after a former adviser accused her of recovering the €157,000 owed to him. The head of the paparazzi agency Bestimage, the queen of the popular press “Mimi” Marchand, whose real name is Michèle Marchand, is accused of complicity in fraud in this case.