The actress with five César, Isabelle Adjani, known for her roles in “The Deadly Summer” (1983), “Queen Margot” (1994) or more recent “masquerade” (2022) will be tried on October 19 before the Paris Criminal Court for tax evasion and money laundering.
The 68-year-old actress and singer is accused of defrauding the tax administration through two mechanisms in 2013, 2016 and 2017. She hid “a €2m donation from Diagna NDiaye as part of a loan that enabled him to avoid €1.2m in transfer fees.” and she has her fictional place of residence in Portugal, which allows her to do this“Evasion of 236,000 euros income tax”a justice source told – on Tuesday.
Mamadou Diagna Ndiaye is an influential Senegalese businessman, President of the Senegalese National Olympic and Sports Committee (Cnoss) and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He is also Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) to be held in Senegal in 2026.
The actress is also facing charges of money laundering committed between the United States and Portugal in 2014. She is suspected of money laundering “Transferring an amount of €119,000 from an offshore company with an unknown beneficial owner, intended for investment in Portugal, through an American bank account that has not been reported to the tax authorities”, developed the same source. When contacted, his attorney did not immediately respond.
Fragile and passionate heroine
The investigation was launched in 2016 after the Panama Papers uncovered a scheme of tax evasion via accounts in tax havens. Isabelle Adjani has been named as a business owner in the British Virgin Islands.
The weekly newspaper L’Express had uncovered the existence of this investigation, carried out by the Central Office for Combating Corruption, Financial and Tax Crimes (Oclciff), in relation to this offshore company Deckert Investments Limited, which was founded and registered in Fonseca with the support of the Mossack company was July 2014.
At the end of the preliminary investigation and after examining the defense arguments, the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Finance sent Isabelle Adjani a summons to appear before the Paris Criminal Court on October 19.
Although the investigations failed to identify financial flows related to this offshore company, they did bring to light facts of tax evasion and money laundering, according to the court source.
One of the leading actresses of the 1980s and 1990s, Isabelle Adjani left her mark on cinema by playing fragile and passionate heroines, from Adèle H. to Queen Margot and Eliane “The Deadly Summer”.
After a stunning debut, the actress with the five Césars is becoming increasingly rare in the cinema, but, like in the hit series, causes a stir in each of her appearances in cinema, in the theater or on television “Captain Marleau”.
In another court case, Isabelle Adjani was charged with fraud in October 2020 after a former agent complained that she had sent her false proof of reimbursement of the €157,000 owed to him. The boss of the paparazzi agency Bestimage, “Mimi” Marchand, whose real name is Michèle Marchand, is also charged in this case with complicity in fraud.
