The two sons of former Prime Minister Raymond Barre, who had been implicated for laundering aggravated tax fraud, benefited in November from a dismissal order, we learned on Monday from a source familiar with the matter. .
The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) confirmed to AFP on Monday the information from the JDD concerning the dismissal order, stating that it dated from November 21.
The two sons had been indicted in February and September 2020 for laundering aggravated tax evasion in this judicial investigation opened by the PNF in April 2016.
According to Le Canard enchan, which had revealed the case in July 2019, the former boss of the General Directorate of Public Finance, Bruno Bzard, had seized the financial prosecution after the sending to the tax authorities, by an informant in 2013, of a screenshot of the Credit Suisse bank’s internal network.
A situation finally regularized
It included in particular the name of Raymond Barre and two handwritten entries: an account number and an amount of 11 million Swiss francs, which the investigators had confirmed, according to the newspaper.
According to the JDD, the investigation had finally focused on a financial arrangement intended to escape the transfer rights linked to the purchase of a 395 square meter villa in the luxurious town of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (Alpes-Maritimes), close to Nice.
The two men, Olivier and Nicolas Barre, have regularized their tax situation in relation to the assets of their father, who died in 2007, had assured AFP in 2020 to a source familiar with the matter.
According to the JDD, it was the abandonment by the tax authorities of any lawsuit against the two brothers which led the judges to close this file without referral to trial. Me Marie-Alix Canu-Bernard, lawyer for one of the two sons, did not wish to comment. The other son’s lawyer could not be reached.