Actress Isabelle Adjani will be tried on October 19 by the Paris Criminal Court for tax evasion and money laundering, we learned on Tuesday from a judicial source. Contacted, his counsel 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 two million euros from Diagna NDiaye, under cover of a loan, which enabled her to evade 1.2 million euros in transfer duties” and she fictitiously resided in Portugal, thus allowing him to “evade 236,000 euros 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 from of an offshore company with an 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 did not make it possible to identify financial flows in connection with this offshore company, they did however reveal facts of tax evasion and money laundering, specified the judicial source.
A leading actress of the 1980s and 1990s, Isabelle Adjani left her mark on the cinema by playing fragile and passionate heroines, from Adèle H. to Queen Margot via Eliane in L’Été murderer. Recently, it is by a return to the song that she made people talk about her: the interpreter of Pull marine written by Gainsbourg 40 years ago, is preparing a second album for the end of the year.
In another legal proceeding, Isabelle was indicted in October 2020 for fraud after the complaint of a former consultant who accused her of having concealed the reimbursement of 157,000 euros that she owed him. The boss of the Bestimage paparazzi agency, the queen of the people press “Mimi” Marchand, whose real name is Michèle Marchand, is also being prosecuted in this case for complicity in fraud.
