Jean-Marie Le Pen under investigation for tax evasion laundering
The national financial prosecutor on Monday opened an investigation for tax evasion laundering on suspicion hidden bank account to stranger who could belong to Jean-Marie Le Pen, which he denies.
In late April, Mediapart revealed the existence of an alert in the FIU Tracfin evoking a trust managed in Geneva whose beneficiary is the personal assistant of Jean-Marie Le Pen, and that would include abounded account to the tune of 2.2 million euros, 1.7 ingots and gold coins. Contacted by AFP Tuesday, Jean-Marie Le Pen has denied any involvement in a trust abroad.
In his report, Tracfin evokes the existence of a trust based in the British Virgin Islands managed in Geneva on behalf of Gerald Gerin, the personal assistant of Jean-Marie Le Pen. The account was closed in 2014 and the money transferred to a bank in the Bahamas. “All these elements should be audited,” says one of the investigators’ side.
“I have nothing to say,” said Gerald Gerin for its part, contacted by AFP. Very close to Jean-Marie Le Pen, he accompanies her wherever Gerald Gerin also appears as the treasurer of his microparti, Cotelec. At the European Parliament he is the assistant of MEP Marie-Christine arnautu, also very close to the former president of the FN is now suspended from the extreme right party.
A previous investigation by the Paris prosecutor was already the heritage of Jean-Marie Le Pen and enrichment of 1.1 million euros between 2004 and 2009, years of beginning and end of one of his European parliamentary mandates. This procedure, in which the question of limitation may arise, is now associated with the investigation of the national financial prosecutor.
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