Actress Isabelle Adjani is suspected of tax fraud and money laundering. She faces an 18-month suspended prison sentence.
Judicial news for Isabelle Adjani. Suspected of tax fraud and money laundering, the actress was tried yesterday, October 19, 2023, before the Paris criminal court, in her absence.
She is accused of having concealed a donation of 2 million euros as a loan in 2013. She is also said to have fictitiously domiciled in Portugal in 2016 and 2017. Facts that she “vigorously contests”. 18 months suspended prison sentence was required.
According to AFP (via 20 Minutes), Isabelle Adjani passed off what was a donation as a loan, which allowed her to avoid 1.2 million euros in transfer taxes. “All the elements of the file and the investigation make it possible to demonstrate, without any ambiguity or possible doubt, that our client benefited in 2013 from a loan from a close friend“, according to Maîtres Babonneau and Pardo.
“This loan was the subject of a contract duly registered with the French tax administration upon its signature in 2013, as required by law. The loan is now at an advanced stage of repayment“.
Furthermore, Isabelle Adjani is accused of having domiciled in Portugal, fictitiously, thus evading 236,000 euros of income tax. “If there was a difference of assessment with the tax administration on the location of her tax residence in 2016 and 2017, she today has no tax debt, whether in France or Portugal and has paid all what she owed“, explains his defense.
Isabelle Adjani contests any infringement.