The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) on Wednesday called on French taxpayers who had used the Helin company, suspected of being at the heart of a vast system of tax evasion since the revelations of the “Dubai papers”, to get closer to him. before April 30.
“Failure to have manifested themselves within this period, it will be taken into account in the context of criminal treatment”, warns in a press release the national financial prosecutor Jean-François Bohnert.
In September 2018, L’Obs and Radio France revealed the existence of a vast international tax evasion laundering network that had been established from the beginning of the 2000s around the Helin group based in the Arab Emirates. United.
These media had based their revelations on the “Dubai papers”, a leak of 200,000 files, memos, emails, letters and faxes.
The PNF recalls having then been the recipient, “by anonymous mailings, of two computer media containing several thousand documents relating to the Helin company, its internal functioning, its customers and the offshore companies created to be made available to them. “.
“The exploitation of part of these documents” and “the spontaneous denunciations of certain taxpayers” allowed the opening of “forty preliminary investigations” concerning both “the Helin company and its customers”, according to the communicated.
A total of 71 searches and 51 hearings and police custody were carried out, while 4 people were sentenced to prison terms and fines during appearance hearings on prior recognition of guilt (CRPC). Other procedures are nearing completion.
“The exploitation of the documents continues with a view to identifying new taxpayers and triggering new tax and/or criminal procedures”, specifies the PNF.