(Paris) French actress Isabelle Adjani will be tried on October 19 in Paris for tax evasion and money laundering, we learned on Tuesday from a judicial source.
Contacted, his lawyer did not respond immediately.
The 68-year-old multi-award-winning actress is accused of defrauding the tax authorities in 2013, 2016 and 2017 through two mechanisms.
She concealed “a donation of 2 million euros ($2.9 million) from Diagna NDiaye, under cover of a loan, which enabled him to evade 1.2 million euros in transfer duties (1 $.7 million)” and she fictitiously took up residence in Portugal, thus allowing her to “evade 236,000 euros ($349,000) in income tax”, detailed the judicial source.
Mamadou Diagna Ndiaye is a Senegalese businessman, president of the Senegalese National Olympic and Sports Committee (Cnoss) and member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The actress will also be tried for money laundering, acts committed between the United States and Portugal in 2014. She is suspected of having “passed through an American bank account not declared to the tax authorities the sum of 119,000 euros ($176,000) from a corporation offshore to the unknown beneficial owner and intended for an investment in Portugal”, developed the same source.
The investigation was opened in 2016 following the revelations of the Panama Papers on a system of tax evasion via accounts in tax havens. Isabelle Adjani was cited as the holder of a company in the British Virgin Islands.
If the investigations have not identified any financial flows linked to this company offshoreon the other hand, they revealed facts of tax evasion and money laundering, said the judicial source.
The only French actress to have won the César for best actress five times, Isabelle Adjani made her theater debut before marking the cinema with fragile and passionate heroines, The story of Adele H. (by François Truffaut, in 1975, inspired by the life of Victor Hugo’s daughter) to Queen Margot (by Patrick Chéreau in 1994, based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas).
Recently, it is by a return to the song that she made people talk about her: the interpreter of Navy sweater written by Serge Gainsbourg 40 years ago, is preparing a second album for the end of the year.
In other legal proceedings, she was indicted in October 2020 for fraud after the complaint of a former consultant who accused her of having made up for the reimbursement of 157,000 euros ($232,000) she owed him.