The General Electric site, in Belfort, was searched on Thursday, December 15, as part of a preliminary investigation for laundering of aggravated tax fraud, announced the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) to Agence France-Presse, confirming a source familiar with the matter.
The investigation was opened in July 2019, following a report made by the national secretary of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, on “suspected optimization and tax evasion by General Electric” in Swiss.
Complaint against X in 2022
After several expert reports and two alert rights since 2018 that have remained ineffective, the French Confederation of Management-General Confederation of Executives (CFE-CGC) and Solidaires, Unitaires, Démocratiques (SUD) filed a complaint against X on May 30. (with the social and economic committee), with the PNF, for “laundering of tax fraud, breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery and aggravated concealment in an organized gang”. A procedure that engages the responsibility of the company as well as that of its managers.
An investigation by the investigative media Disclose had also revealed that the American multinational had transferred up to 800 million euros in profits to Switzerland and the American state of Delaware between 2015 and 2020.
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