A famous French actress will be judged for tax evasion. Has already lost the process in the first instance
Isabelle Adjani Photo: Aissaoui Nacer / Backgrid / Backgrid USA / Profimedia
The French actress Isabelle Adjani will compare on February 26 to the Paris Court of Appeal in a tax fraud file for which she had been convicted in the first instance, a judicial source indicated on Friday. In December 2023, the Paris Correctional Court had pronounced a two -year prison sentence and a fine of 250,000 euros. Isabelle Adjani had appealed, Agerpres reports.
The court estimated that the facts demonstrated the actress's intention to hide information from the fiscal administration and that they were bringing a serious touch to the principle of equality of citizens in front of the tax.
The artist, distinguished with five César awards and known especially for his roles in “L'ete Meurtrier” (1983), “Camille Claudel” (1988), “La Reine Margot” (1994) or, more recently, “Mascarade” (2022), was noted by the general public in 1974, in the film “La Gifle” years.
Adjani, currently 70 years old, had been guilty that she had fraudulently set her domicile in Portugal in 2016 and 2017, stinging from the payment of 236,000 euros from the income tax.
She had also been convicted of a sum of two million euros received in 2013 from Mamadou Diagniae, businessman and friend of the actress, chairman of the National Olympic and Sports Committee and also a member of the International Olympic Committee.
For the court, this amount, declared as a loan, represented in fact “a masked donation”, which allowed the defendant, then in financial difficulties, to avoid the payment of 1.2 million euros representing transfer fees.
Finally, Isabelle Adjani had been found guilty and money laundering because it had transferred by an undeclared account in the United States 119,000 euros to Portugal. According to the court, “the material and legal conditions of this operation could have no justification other than to hide the origin and destination of these funds”.
The actress was not present at the court hearing. Her lawyers claimed, among other things, that she committed an error in the fiscal declaration by declaring her domicile in Portugal, being “poorly advised” at that time.
The investigation had been opened in 2016, after its name in Panama Papers, as a company in the British Virgin Islands. The investigations did not lead to any criminal action in relation to this file, but they revealed other suspicions.
