Isabelle Adjani comes back to the fore, but not for the hoped-for reasons. This Thursday, October 19, the 68-year-old artist went on trial tax fraud and money laundering. She is accused of concealing a loan donation in 2013 and of fictitiously living in Portugal in 2016 and 2017.
Isabelle Adjani is accused of evading at least 1.2 million in transfer taxes
The actress with the five Caesars is suspected of having passed off a donation of 2 million euros as a loan, which would have allowed her to evade 1.2 million euros in transfer taxes, a tax imposed by the State on the occasion of a real estate sale. This sum was transferred to him by an influential businessman, Mamadou Diagna N’Diaye.
In addition to this accusation, Isabelle Adjani is also suspected of having fictitiously domiciled in Portugal, thus evading €236,000 in income tax. The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office also accuses him of having gone through a ” undeclared US bank account » the sum of 119,000 euros, he reports in particular The Parisian With the’French media agency.
Ten months of suspended prison sentence are required
Accusations that she refutes forcefully, but during the hearing on October 19 he was unable to defend himself. A few hours before her, her lawyers had asked for the trial to be postponed, as she was the actress who remained in the United States because she was suffering ” an acute pathology incompatible with flight » according to his lawyer Oliviero Pardo, supporting medical certificate. However, he assures: “ he wants to explain himself, he wants to be there », reported our colleagues atFrench media agencypresent at the hearing.
Isabelle Adjani’s lawyers also highlighted, as a further argument for requesting dismissal, Mamadou Diagna N’Diaye’s inability to come and testify. What the Court rejected. As a result, the hearing took place and the prosecutor requested eighteen months in prison suspended sentence against the actress.
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