This is an unusual case that Europe 1 reveals to you this morning: bailiffs accused of tax evasion and money laundering. They are suspected of having withdrawn from the tax authorities more than one million euros. Money hidden abroad. The two men will soon be tried in the Criminal Court. Particularity: these two bailiffs are father and son.
In the family, they are bailiffs from father to son for generations. Same profession and same career, until successively occupy high positions in the national chamber of the judicial officers. Strong father-son ties that will lead them to court, and for the same offenses: tax evasion and laundering of this fraud.
They acknowledged the facts
It is the tax authorities who seized the law and discovered that for nearly twenty years, these two famous bailiffs in the Paris region have held four hidden accounts in Luxembourg. Accounts quietly closed in 2010, from which they have withdrawn several hundred thousand euros in cash, without declaring anything to customs. But above all, with the balance, they would have bought a riad in Morocco.
In total, the investigators of the judicial police and the GIR estimate the fraud to 1.2 million euros. The son, in custody, and his father in open court because of his age, have both acknowledged the facts, according to our information. The prosecutor sent them directly to the correctional center where they will be tried soon.