undervalued heritage: the use of Le Pen dismissed by the Council of State – The Point

The State Council said Wednesday it has rejected two requests from Navy and Jean-Marie Le Pen challenging the transmission by the High Authority for transparency in public life (HATVP) the prosecutor elements on a potential under-reporting of their heritage. Requests the Chairperson of the National Front, and his father, who sought the annulment of the decision of the HATVP, are both rejected as “brought before a court without jurisdiction”, slice the State Council in two decisions whose Agence France-Presse has read Wednesday.

HATVP had passed early December prosecutor Marine wealth declarations and Jean-Marie Le Pen, under Article 40 of code of criminal procedure, which requires any official or public institution to report to the prosecutor a criminal offense which he has knowledge. “A notice given by an administrative authority to the prosecutor on the basis of these provisions and the decision to transmit the items relating thereto are inseparable from the appreciation that may bring the judicial authority on the act subsequent prosecution. It is not therefore the administrative courts to-know, “the State Council in the recitals.

doubts about the sincerity of their statements

the current President and former National Front leader had rebelled against the decision of the HATVP, Marine Le Pen then seeing it as “a desire to harm now systematic and outrageous,” his father, proof the “harassment of government opponents and the establishment”.

at the time, the High Authority had expressed his “serious doubt as to the completeness, accuracy and truthfulness of their statements, because of the obvious undervaluation of certain real estate assets held jointly by Mr. Jean-Marie Le Pen and Ms. Le Pen and, moreover, the omission of movable property by Jean-Marie Le Pen “. This offense is punishable by 45 000 euros fine, three years in prison and ten years of ineligibility under the law for transparency in public life.

An undervalued more one million euros

The High Authority was interested in the wealth declarations that Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen were required to fill in their capacity as members of Parliament. It complains that the historic leader of the National Front and its current president have undervalued their assets for about two-thirds of their value, more than one million euros for Jean-Marie Le Pen and hundreds of thousand euros for his daughter. She made a concurrent decision for both cases because some elements of their property are common, including the properties of La Celle-Saint-Cloud and Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine). “This evaluation of minority shares of SCI is totally contradictory and seriously overvalued with that operated for many years by the tax authorities,” says Marine Le Pen.

He is also accused Jean- Marie Le Pen of failing to report an account in Switzerland and gold bars which were the subject of a report rating the anti-money laundering cell Bercy (Tracfin). This led in early November in the search of Jean-Marie Le Pen from office following a complaint for aggravated tax fraud from the IRS. The judge of the State Council had already refused the end of December to suspend the proceedings of the HATVP for “lack of urgency”.