The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) on Thursday in Paris called for an 18-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 250,000 euros against French star Isabelle Adjani, who was tried in absentia on charges of aggravated tax fraud and money laundering.
The 68-year-old act, which called for innocence, was a soup to receive a donation in 2013 and the best home in Portugal in 2016 and 2017, as soon as the next donation arrived in 2014 sometime via United States of America.
In the early afternoon, her defense asked to postpone the trial, arguing that she “wanted to explain her position” in court, but she was unable to board the plane from the United States due to an “acute medical condition.” .
The court rejected this request, concluding that “it was not sufficiently certain that Ms. Adjani actually intended to attend.”
“Isabelle Adjani’s name does not matter much in the end. The Financial Prosecutor declared that her fame was neither an additional reason nor an obstacle to prosecution. “Before she is a public figure, she is a citizen subject to duties.”
According to the prosecution, its main domicile, professional activity and centers of activity were in France and not in Portugal in 2016 and 2017, and it should have paid 236 thousand euros in income tax in France.
Likewise, according to the National Progressive Fund, a transfer of two million euros in 2013 from a Senegalese businessman was not a loan, but rather a “disguised donation.”
The loan contract signed between them, which did not include interest or guarantees, was “fake” for the prosecution, which believes that this allowed the actress to evade 1.2 million euros in transfer taxes.
Finally, the Philippine National Police requested that she be charged with money laundering because she transferred 119,000 euros from a company in Hong Kong to an “undeclared” American bank account, then transferred it to the mother of a relative in Portugal for the purchase. Of real estate.
The defense must demand acquittal in the evening.
