Former Minister Caroline Cayeux is under investigation for incomplete or misleading declaration of assets and laundering of tax fraud

The former minister Caroline Cayeux has been targeted since December 5 by a preliminary investigation after a report from the High Authority for the Transparency of Public Life (HATVP) on her assets, the prosecutor’s office told AFP on Wednesday March 8. Paris, confirming information from World.

The investigation is open for incomplete or misleading declaration of assets to the HATVP and laundering of tax fraud. She was entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of economic crime, said the public prosecutor.

The HATVP announced at the end of November that it had taken legal action, suspecting a “false evaluation” of the heritage of the former Minister Delegate for Territorial Communities. These doubts concern in particular a Parisian apartment of 210 m2, and a “tax evasion”.

Reduction in the value of his property

The administrative authority had mentioned in a press release “significant reductions in the value of his property”, his main residence in Paris and a house located in Ille-et-Vilaine, “about half of the total value of these two goods”. “She could not ignore the fair value of it”, specified the HATVP.

Following the revelations on the subject, Caroline Cayeux had resigned from her post of Minister for Territorial Collectivities to “not to hinder the action of the government”. She had then contested the assessment of the HATVP and claimed to have made an amending declaration of her assets in “taking into account observations” of the organism. The latter had alerted her on the occasion of his declaration of assets as mayor of Beauvais in 2021.