Louis de Raguenel, edited by Juline Garnier
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7:10 p.m., April 06, 2022
Following the McKinsey case, the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office opened a preliminary investigation for “aggravated money laundering of tax evasion”. The Senate commission of inquiry accused the French entities of the McKinsey firm of tax optimization, such that they would not have paid any corporate tax between 2011 and 2020.
New twist in the McKinsey case. The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) has opened a preliminary investigation for aggravated money laundering of tax evasion after learning of the Senate report on the influence of private consulting firms on public policies, the National Financial Prosecutor announced in a press release on Wednesday. .
At this time, this is a preliminary investigation. This means that at this stage, the financial public prosecutor is seeking to gather information to establish the existence or absence of a criminal offence.
An investigation that falls badly for the president-candidate
This survey targets the consulting firms that have been mandated by the government of Emmanuel Macron during the five-year term. This falls very badly for candidate Macron four days before the first round of the presidential election. Since the publication of a parliamentary report on the influence of consulting firms, there has not been a campaign trip without the president-candidate being questioned on the subject.
A controversial subject because last year, the State paid nearly a billion euros to these firms and some of them do not pay taxes in France, via tax optimization mechanisms . From Valérie Pécresse to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, all the presidential candidates have been attacking Emmanuel Macron for several days.
On April 5, three parliamentarians from Éric Zemmour’s party seized the public prosecutor precisely on this file, while unlike 2017, there was little mention of court cases in this campaign. From now on, the subject is invited in the campaign of the favorite of the polls, the President of the Republic.