HR with AFP –
Franck Provost in the crosshairs of justice. The famous hairdresser was indicted for “misuse of corporate assets” and “organized gang money laundering of aggravated tax fraud”, said the Nanterre public prosecutor’s office on Thursday in a press release to AFP. Since this indictment, which took place on Tuesday during his presentation to an examining magistrate in Nanterre, the founder of the Provalliance group has been placed under judicial supervision “with a deposit set at several hundred thousand euros”, said the prosecution.
According to the prosecution, “several reports” have been “transmitted by the tax authorities in 2017 concerning the use of fraudulent cash register software to divert cash receipts from a network of hairdressing salons”. The 75-year-old businessman is thus also indicted for “provision of equipment and programs for committing offenses and breaches of automated data processing systems”.
It relates in particular to the offenses of“abuse of corporate assets and complicity, breach of trust, tax evasion and complicity, organized gang money laundering of aggravated tax fraud, illegal exercise of the profession of accountant, possession, offer, provision of equipment and programs to commit offenses and breaches of automated data processing systems “.