Jerome Cahuzac returned to Corrections for tax evasion – The World

The former Minister Jerome Cahuzac budget was returned to Corrections for fraud facts fiscal and tax fraud laundering related to his bank account hidden abroad, according to the national financial prosecutor. Three others will be judged: Patricia Cahuzac, Philippe and François Reyl Houman, and the bank Reyl and C ^ie

After. <- - Atom snippet!> having long denied, despite the revelations of the site Mediapart, former budget minister had recognized early April 2013 before the investigating judges have an account at UBS in Switzerland in 1992, through d One of his knowledge, the lawyer Philip Peninque close to the extreme right. The account would have been fed by his surgeon to income but also in 1993 by two transfers from Pfizer for a consultancy.

On 19 March 2013, the Paris prosecutor opened a judicial investigation against X tax evasion and tax fraud laundering. The same day, the budget minister had left the government. In a statement, he continued to proclaim “[his] innocence” .

His ex-wife, Patricia Cahuzac, also admitted before the investigating judges at the end of 2013 opening an account with her husband on the Isle of Man in 1997 and others in Switzerland, unbeknownst to Jerome Cahuzac. Money, more than 2 million had been used for real estate investments

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The scandal had undermined promises “copy Republic “ Francois Hollande. Subsequently, the government has strengthened the fight against tax fraud created a national financial flooring and a new body, the High Authority for the transparency of public life (HATVP).