The famous actress Isabelle Adjani will compare on February 26 before the Paris Court of Appeal in a tax fraud file for which she had been convicted in the first instance, a judicial source said on Friday.
Isabelle Adjani was convicted in the first instance. Photo Getty Images
After, in December 2023, the Paris Correctional Court pronounced in the case of the French actress a two -year prison sentence and a fine of 250,000 euros, Isabelle Adjani appealed, writes Agerpres, citing the International Agency.
The court believed that the facts demonstrated the intention of the actress to hide information from the fiscal administration and that they had a serious touch on the principle of equality of citizens before the tax.
Distinguished with five César prizes and known especially for its roles in “L’ete meurtrier “ (1983), “Camille Claudel “ (1988), “To reine margot ” (1994) or, more recently, “Mascarade” (2022), the French actress was noted by the general public in 1974, in the movie “La Gifle”, by Claude Pinoteau, when she was not 20 years old.
Isabelle Adjani, currently 70 years old, had been found guilty that she had fraudulently established her domicile in Portugal in 2016 and 2017, stinging from the payment of 236,000 euros from the income tax.
The actress had also been convicted of a sum of two million euros received in 2013 from Mamadou Diagnian, businessman and friend of the actress, chairman of the National Olympic and Sports Committee and at the same time a member of the International Olympic Committee.
“Masked donation”
According to the court, this amount, declared as a loan, actually represented a “Masked donation“, Which allowed the defendant, then in financial difficulties, to avoid the payment of 1.2 million euros representing transfer fees.
Isabelle Adjani had been found guilty and money laundering because it had transferred through an “undeclared” account in the United States 119,000 euros to Portugal. According to the court, “the material and legal conditions of this operation could have no justification other than to hide the origin and destination of these funds”.
The French star was not present at the court hearing. Her lawyers claimed, among other things, that she committed an “error” in the fiscal declaration by declaring her domicile in Portugal, being “poorly advised” at that time.
The investigation had been opened in 2016, after its name in Panama Papers, as a company in the British Virgin Islands. The investigations did not lead to any criminal action in relation to this file, but they revealed other suspicions.
